After luring customers with low prices, Amazon stuffs Fire TVs with ads

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  • RootMyTV

  • My wife and I bought a Fire TV for a particular use case:

    - The hot tub room in the winter

    - The outdoor patio in the summer

    It was so cheap, we don't mind the ads on the home screen. If it dies from the moisture, we'll just buy another one.

    Meanwhile, the big LG OLED we bought, I have been on a crusade to neuter all the ads without causing issues with downloading apps/updates/streaming. The RootMyTV exploit no longer works:

    https://github.com/RootMyTV/RootMyTV.github.io

    I have found blocking the IP of the local Akamai peer works for blocking some ads and the OS update check, but at the cost of other things which also use the CDN. It seems to use internal DNS, which complicates things.

  • flauncher

  • It's really quite easy (for the average HN reader) to do this too, no cables required. I used FLauncher and followed this guide. https://gitlab.com/flauncher/flauncher#method-2-disable-the-...

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