Bertonumber1
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Hi guys n girls, how you all doing?
Some of you with firetv, 4k firestick, firestick 2nd generation devices have probably noticed that amazon have pushed out OTA updates that have killed off the ability to set your own ATV launcher.
The update has taken away the privilege of writing "pm grant" permissions through the adb shell process in terminal/adb. The update modified system settings to prevent the user modifying the accessibility settings which I'm sure a lot of you read about on the Web.
This amazon update has had a detrimental effect on the users ability to take control of their firetv homescreen (stop advertisements, sponsored apps) and has left many of us for the worse.
Some apps such as githubs firetvlaunchx app which replaced the 'launcher hijack' method after similar updates killed that off have also been stopped.
So we are buying these devices that are advertisement machines and we are being prevented from upgrading them to suit our own needs through personalisation of simple comforts that make family viewing more comfortable.
It is always a good thing to have control of your device and as amazon continues to grow from the profit made through advertisements and the constant screening of sponsored apps, what choice do we really have in the future if we continue to buy devices like these?
Maybe the solution lies in switching to more user friendly sticks/boxes on the android TV platform.
What do you guys think?
Some of you with firetv, 4k firestick, firestick 2nd generation devices have probably noticed that amazon have pushed out OTA updates that have killed off the ability to set your own ATV launcher.
The update has taken away the privilege of writing "pm grant" permissions through the adb shell process in terminal/adb. The update modified system settings to prevent the user modifying the accessibility settings which I'm sure a lot of you read about on the Web.
This amazon update has had a detrimental effect on the users ability to take control of their firetv homescreen (stop advertisements, sponsored apps) and has left many of us for the worse.
Some apps such as githubs firetvlaunchx app which replaced the 'launcher hijack' method after similar updates killed that off have also been stopped.
So we are buying these devices that are advertisement machines and we are being prevented from upgrading them to suit our own needs through personalisation of simple comforts that make family viewing more comfortable.
It is always a good thing to have control of your device and as amazon continues to grow from the profit made through advertisements and the constant screening of sponsored apps, what choice do we really have in the future if we continue to buy devices like these?
Maybe the solution lies in switching to more user friendly sticks/boxes on the android TV platform.
What do you guys think?