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Amazon's Fire TV is Adding Full-Screen Video Ads That Play When You Start Your Fire TV
(cordcuttersnews.com)
this post was submitted on 02 Dec 2023
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People keep buying big tech products and subscriptions then are shocked when they fuck you over? shocked picachu
Unfortunately, for a lot of non-tech savy people, the options often boil down to this kind of shit or being part of a botnet within a few days.
Yeah, what is the alternative? “Oh you can assemble your own raspberry pi kit, after you partition an SD card and install a special version of Linux you can then tunnel it to a vpn and BitTorrent all your movies and shows using the -arr software suite and then use a package manager to install Kodi or jellyfin to watch, and maybe if you put docker on it you can use HomeAssistant to dim your lights when watching”
Meanwhile their iPhone autocorrects half those words to something else.
There are fewer and fewer options every day that aren't by big brands.
It’s a real shame. Monopolies in any industry/product inevitably lead to fucking over consumers… time we broke em up I think
Hundred percent agreed