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Amazon's Fire TV is Adding Full-Screen Video Ads That Play When You Start Your Fire TV
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this post was submitted on 02 Dec 2023
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People buy Firesticks and run the Amazon software?
Man I hate this flippant pseudointelligent passive-aggressive crap.
Yes, not everyone missed their childhood to learn Linux like we did. People don’t have the time or knowledge to build their own streaming box. None of their friends are ever impressed when they do anyway.
Those people are all busy specializing in something else, so that you or I don’t have to learn to farm, or manufacture Cheetos, or keep the water running.
This is being extremely exploited by late-stage capitalism now, however. What we need are some ethical choices for stuff like smart devices, things that don’t need “cloud connection” just so your phone can turn your lights on. FFS they’re right next to each other, we don’t need to bring CloudFlare into this.
IKEA's smart stuff is the best out there for the average consumer. Manages to be something that "just works" whilst also being fully local, no cloud connection, uses open standard APIs and provides firmware updates as downloads.