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Fire TV: Amazon to block piracy apps in the future

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100 points speckx | 1 comments | 31 Oct 25 17:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.201s | source
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_fat_santa ◴[31 Oct 25 17:59 UTC] No.45774828[source]▶
Part of me wants to be angry at this change but another part of me is honestly going "ok whatever".

It's not like FireTV is the only game in town. These days you can buy an RPI Zero or next to nothing and program it to basically the same thing as a FireTV with zero restrictions and no possibility for future restrictions.

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cheeze ◴[31 Oct 25 18:14 UTC] No.45774976[source]▶
That sounds like a pain in the ass though. Explaining to my dad how to use Downloader on a FireTV is a lot easier than "hey dude buy a raspberry pi"
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1. kyriakos ◴[01 Nov 25 04:18 UTC] No.45779210[source]▶
There are a lot of Chinese devices out there with official android TV that do what firestick does and better with less ads and maybe even less tracking. People wanting to pirate will move to those. Raspberry pi is not cheap or the solution I agree.