New Firestick Update - Amazon Target 3rd Party Apps

[Joe516]

 

[Fox789]

That’s creepy of Amazon to do on all their devices for third party apps.

 

[Aristotle]

That’s creepy of Amazon to do on all their devices for third party apps.

Mobile phones and the apps within the phones are doing the same.
Also smart devices with microphones are listening to us.
We are being monitored nothing new but as long as you are doing nothing illegal you have nothing to worry about.
Users on here will be fine lol.
Snowden knows.

 

[browney]

I know they're so popular but I really don't like firesticks, always found them sluggish.

 

[thebesh]

I dislike the firesticks also - the ads and performance are not for me. I got my parents one and it's fine for them.

All the big corporate companies do as much data collecting as possible. Microsoft do similar sneaky tricks in their Windows Updates. You can change privacy settings on your machine to stop data collection, but they have often changed these settings as part of Windows Update which toggle data collection back on again. They don't tell you they have done this either.

This is why I love the open source world. I only run Windows for my gaming PC and do nothing else on it. I wish I could run Linux on it, but a lot of games will simply not work on it. I'm hopeful with the success of the Steam Deck (Linux based) will improve the desktop gaming world for Linux.

 

[Aristotle]

They go hand in hand, cheap tv and a cheap device.
I used to set them up for folk when they first started being used for third party streaming.
I only ever owned the first gen and it was the last.
Each to their own though as they do work for folk.