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It seems to be related to some advertising push from a partner named Alfonso that is gathering information cross-platform anything that appears on your screen and pushing advertising to you during playback.

Hopefully not, but that's what it looks like from early reading.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

What else would you use to watch? I used to have my TV offline and watch through a Firestick and airplay, but now the Firestick is worse than the TV apps. I need a new media streamer, but even Roku has enshittified. At this point my only hope is Apple but Apple TV hasn’t been updated in three years

…. Or I might just give up, since Netflix decided my TV is not part of my household so I need a 2fa every time I want to watch.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Still very happy with the shield pro. Old as sin but does everything.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Wow, even has Apple TV+, which the Fire Stick doesn’t. Fairly expensive but the description looks hood

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Still has an active hacking community for it, you can do quite a lot with it if you want. Definitely put a non oem loader on it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

You're asking the wrong person. I mostly watch stuff on a Windows tablet. I'm hardly your prototypical media consumer.

But when I do want to watch something on a nice screen it's an LG or Samsung TV where I haven't logged in and turned on as many privacy settings as possible. Mostly I use a local Plex server, and I do have a Windows PC hooked up to a TV as a media center and gaming device.

IMO there isn't a "good experience silver bullet" thing out there. You're navigating like three layers of advertising datamining on all options, including straight-up live broadcast TV. At this point it's about mitigation. I should give a pihole a try and see what that does to the TVs. If I could at least kill the need to manually opt out of live TV cookies every time a family member tries to watch something that'd be a major win.