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After luring customers with low prices, Amazon stuffs Fire TVs with ads(arstechnica.com)

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pirat@lemmy.world

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10 months ago

How did they lock them down?

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knotthatone@lemmy.one

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10 months ago

Pushed a software update that disabled third party launchers and disallowed disabling future software updates.

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pirat@lemmy.world

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10 months ago

Oh, shit!

My Xiaomi Mi Box S 4K doesn’t auto-update because there’s not enough storage space left.

No idea if Xiaomi have pushed any Amazon-level evil updates since last update though.

All I know is, 3rd-party launchers changed my life for the better, and I don’t want it to change anytime soon.

My favorite 3rd party launchers

AndroidTV

FLauncher
LeanbackOnFire

Android

Kvaesitso

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