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Amazon's Stock Clearance: Upgrade Your TV with Amazing Fire TV Stick Discounts (gizmodo.com)
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[โ€“] Ebby@lemmy.ssba.com 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If I recall you still can through ADB, but it's a pain and they started locking that down too. Ad blocking VPN (at least the one I tried) didn't work.

There was a big update about a year ago that very clearly sent the message "this device will show what we want you to see."

[โ€“] realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club -1 points 2 months ago

Ah, that doesn't shock me. Yeah I left when they started like disabling custom launchers or something, and I realized getting a Google TV would be easier than getting around that restriction.