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Lee Duna to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish • 1 year ago

Amazon is now automatically playing fullscreen video ads on Fire TV

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Amazon is now automatically playing fullscreen video ads on Fire TV

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Lee Duna to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish • 1 year ago
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Almost every smart TV platform is, at this point, a billboard for ads with your apps sprinkled in, but where...
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  • Mkengine
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    If you want to do this because of the full screen ads you may be too late.

    • nicetriangle
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      Lol yeah the timing of their comment couldn’t have been more ironic

    • @kniescherz@feddit.de
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      Lol, damn.

    • @Skimmer@lemmy.zip
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      You can easily change launchers on the Shield and remove all of Google’s nonsense through ADB as well though, unlike Amazon who locks down the OS very tight. Plus like another commenter said, you can just flat out install LineageOS and you’re good.

      • Mkengine
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        Thanks for the tip, I didn’t know that.

    • X3I
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      You can run lineageOS on it though; problem solved

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