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The two newest Fire Sticks block apps from outside of Amazon's store.

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[–] cristian64@reddthat.com 10 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

In an ideal world, they would get 0 sales.

[–] unphazed@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago

I talk to streamers every day for work. They will buy whatever they are told to buy. It amazes me how people will buy hacked firesticks or modified apks in an Android TV device for $300, and explain they "beat the system". If the long term claim is money savings, they'll believe it. If it's easier, they'll buy it. I stopped using Firesticks when I noticed they had constant traffic of 40kb/s even when not in use. Even data sharing would only be pulling at certain times I would think.