Amazon Firestick FINALLY Done IT - 3rd Party APPS BLOCKED !
Dar1437
TK Veteran
I'm guessing you don't remember the program Why Don't You? Lol
I think you need to be over 50 lol
manic01
TK Veteran
Or dont load flagged hacked apps 😉
So whats the point of having a Fire Device ? What this shows is any app could be flagged.
A large percentage of users will have an illegal app on their device.
The fact they could trace them and can is enough to say yeah this things linked to my address.
I've various android devices none of them even have a google account assigned to them let alone an account with my full details, all my apps are sideloaded and behind a router with a VPN running.
For me that's as safe as it can be.
Aristotle
TK Veteran
All the popular apps like Kodi, Stremio, Tivimate and many other player are all available on the Google playstore so they are legit.
It’s just when you modify and add certain features to those apps they become illegal.
Same with Debrid services they only become illegal when the user access’s copyrighted material on file hosting sites and cache it to the Debrids servers.
The app that acts as a content indexer is not illegal it only becomes illegal when the user adds or modifies it to access copyrighted material.
But they don’t seem to be prosecuting people for doing this and are going after the people who host or supplies the copyrighted material.
It’s just when you modify and add certain features to those apps they become illegal.
Same with Debrid services they only become illegal when the user access’s copyrighted material on file hosting sites and cache it to the Debrids servers.
The app that acts as a content indexer is not illegal it only becomes illegal when the user adds or modifies it to access copyrighted material.
But they don’t seem to be prosecuting people for doing this and are going after the people who host or supplies the copyrighted material.
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manic01
TK Veteran
When I say hacked, I meant hacked asin what the flixvision app has had done to it.
Malicious code in Flix Vision app · Issue #2835 · fmhy/edit
A few months ago, users reported on Reddit that the Flix Vision app was making unsolicited network requests (signs of internet sharing/botnet). Being a reverse engineer myself, I decided to look into the latest version of the app and check for potential malicious code.
It was discovered that the Flix Vision app has code that, at the developer's discretion, can remotely enable an internet-sharing SDK called TraffMonetizer that runs in the background. This turns the users of the Flix Vision app into exit nodes for residential proxy services that can perform web scraping and other malicious/illegal activities 1,2, using the user's internet connection, without their consent or knowledge. The developers of Flix Vision get revenue from TraffMonetizer for selling user's internet connections.
Yeah i understand that and for now all they have done is take out Flix.
The media already slates the Firesticks as an illegal viewing devices. It's now know by all Amazon can take an app out.
So what happens next if Sky and the entertainment industry push it ?
But there is not much call to use those apps outside of turning them into illegal viewing platforms. We and the industry know that.
My thoughts at this moment is it is not in a users best interest to be using a device that is linked to your address regardless of prosecutions to the end user not been made at this time.
Popular devices that you don't have to use is the point im making with my reasoning.
I'm not trying to turn this in to a pissing contest 🤣
Aristotle
TK Veteran
I share your views regarding having a device linked to the users home address but it’s the herd mentality and the cost and what they get for their money that users are attracted to Amazon devices.
Also the fact that for now they don’t prosecute the end user for accessing copyright material.
So users are not really that worried for now.
They are more concerned about Amazon doing them a favour and removing apps with malicious code lol.
But I am curious to see if Amazon start to remove apps that are not available on their play store like Kodi or Stremio.
Which now seems they have the ability to do.
Also the fact that for now they don’t prosecute the end user for accessing copyright material.
So users are not really that worried for now.
They are more concerned about Amazon doing them a favour and removing apps with malicious code lol.
But I am curious to see if Amazon start to remove apps that are not available on their play store like Kodi or Stremio.
Which now seems they have the ability to do.
Aristotle
TK Veteran
Don’t forget to take your mobile phone with you so it gives your location at the scene of the crime lol
This is going off-topic, so apologies, but I'm always amazed when I watch some real life police thing on TV and the suspect has SO much evidence against them and their defence is "dog ate my homework level" and they still somehow get away with it.
Back on topic. The police don't really care about TV/Movie piracy IMO. The media corporations obviously do and will try and push this, but this sort of crime is literally victimless. Amazon want to sell their devices, they don't really care what people do with them. They will be losing a percentage of their Amazon Prime show revenue, but I'm sure they've done the maths on sales vs revenue lost to piracy. If it was huge they would close that door straight away!
Back on topic. The police don't really care about TV/Movie piracy IMO. The media corporations obviously do and will try and push this, but this sort of crime is literally victimless. Amazon want to sell their devices, they don't really care what people do with them. They will be losing a percentage of their Amazon Prime show revenue, but I'm sure they've done the maths on sales vs revenue lost to piracy. If it was huge they would close that door straight away!
Bertonumber1
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Boycott Amazon and their devices its terrible what they are doing to their customers , those who have them already I'm sure can use ADB commands through a PC or maybe network IP block amazon OTA updates with Adguard or similar to stop this bullet that kills these 3rd party apps i hope.
My old Amazon 2015 'Sloane' box has the updates disabled. I gave up having to hack the hell out of fire sticks/boxes and tablets just to keep out the ads , tracking and display my own homescreen. It got so bad i decided it wasnt worth having to remap home buttons and the like (we shouldnt have to) i've never looked back since going for an Nvidia Shield TV Pro 2019. Brilliant device.
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Aristotle
TK Veteran
Which customers do you mean?
The one that use Amazon devices for illegal streaming or the ones that subscribe to their streaming platform lol
manic01
TK Veteran
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
moshibeth
TK Veteran
Depends which version of the app you are using. I tested a couple last week one installed and worked fine and the other one blocked.
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