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Amazon's Fire TV is Adding Full-Screen Video Ads That Play When You Start Your Fire TV(cordcuttersnews.com)

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A lot of the fire tvs can be rooted! There’s a great community over at XDA with all the needed resources.

I have two 4k sticks (1st gen) rooted and debloated running Leanback launcher. When you cut out all the junk, it really is (or was?) the best 4k streaming device under $50.

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You can btw “simply” opt out from this in the settings (look for “featured content” and disable it).

Yes it should be opt-in, but it’s not that hard to keep the fire tv (stick) being a good device for the price paid.

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Chahk@beehaw.org
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You can …

For now. Until everyone gets used to it and suddenly the option to opt out disappears.

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I can still throw away my fire tv stick then. At the moment it still does the job I bought it for and I won’t produce unnecessary garbage for something that might happen in the future.

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