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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] 20 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Well, you get what you pay for. It's very cheap for a reason: you are the product.

I got an Apple TV in 2018 and it's still working perfectly. Yes, it was expensive, but it has no ads, it's still fast and responsive, and it still gets updates.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Ditto, I caved and got an Apple TV around 2020 after getting fed up with Android TV OS being complete garbage and constantly crashing. I'm not even an Apple fan, but the user experience was a night and day difference. Siri ended up actually being really useful in a TV remote, no more typing in passwords manually or typing in search bars.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I bought an Apple TV recently for a secondary TV and it’s a real pleasure to use. Also have a Shield Pro in the theater which is getting annoying with ads and silly UX changes. I used to sing the praises of the Shield and encouraged many friends/family to buy it in the past (even over Apple TV). But not anymore.

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

Sadly that’s mostly a google issue. They can turn a lot of stuff on and off server side. Nvidia would have to build a new Home Screen and I’m not sure they want to do that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I have an Nvidia Shield and recently learned about alternative launchers to replace the stock android TV launcher and remove all the ads. I just installed ProjectIvy and it's amazing. Clean and simple and now there are no ads or banners or anything. Highly recommend it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I still have one of the Apple TV HDs from 2015 on one tv and it’s still fast compared to the built in smart tv on TVs I got last year. I had 2 more that I upgraded to 4K units last year but gave the HDs away and they’re still being used. They really weren’t expensive for me because directv had launched their streaming service and were giving Apple TVs away when paying for a certain amount of months.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

This is the way.

Apple TV is an amazing device and I hope it’ll be even better in 1-2 years. Put an M3 inside the Apple TV and you get a console on PS4 level and a multimedia device.

I really hope Apple will do this.