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Amazon is now automatically playing fullscreen video ads on Fire TV (9to5google.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

OK what the hell. This is the platform I was considering jumping into. Is nothing sacred anymore? That thing costs a fortune by TV stick standards.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yep, everything is fucked. You can put kodi on a raspberry pi though I guess

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You honestly got me thinking about the viability of throwing android TV on an RP4. I have one that I was going to use for a magic mirror, but I never got around to building it. I'm guessing I could find a remote and an IR module for the RP4, then just load android TV to it? Time to go down the rabbit hole...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I wouldn't put android TV. Kodi has plex and jellyfin addon and definitely won't have ads ever, or if it does it'll quickly be forked

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

In case anybody sees this, you can use your normal TV remote with a pi

https://pimylifeup.com/raspberrypi-hdmi-cec/