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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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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

I picked up a 4K Fire Stick a few years back, connected it to my Wi-Fi and then watched the network activity from the router with little surprise. Tech companies sell ad-delivery devices with a nominal end-user benefit.

Once NUCs became powerful and affordable enough to use as a dedicated HTPC/server, anything with a proprietary OS made no sense, even taking portability into consideration. This is just the latest example of why.