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[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 months ago (2 children)

They can fuck off if they think I'm buying anything with Amazon spyware built into it.

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

No one is forcing you to connect your TV to the Internet. You can use it in offline mode and it will work just fine.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

My definition of "just fine" isn't a weird little Android spinoff. TV should have a normal input selector, maybe a settings menu.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Hopefully this is true because I’ve heard from people trying to do just that with other “Smart TVs” that won’t work at all without an internet connection and account at least for initial setup.

[–] realcaseyrollins 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'll take the Google spyware over the Amazon spyware any day

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] realcaseyrollins 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Amazon Fire TV is just Amazon spyware on top of Google spyware anyways

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

The goal is to deny all of the parasites access!