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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        I’ve got a Fire in the back of mine which I want everyone to use, but everyone just uses the LG interface except me.

        Of course it screws up all the time, and when it does my first question is, “Hey did you try what you’re doing on the Fire plugged into the back to see if it worked on that?”

        Not like I love the fire either, but pick your poison, right? Apple, Amazon, Google, LG. Which large tech company would you like to milk your information?

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          I have an old laptop running LibreELEC (literally) strapped to the back of my TV. With a PC connected remote it works great.

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          They’ll never use the LG interface again if you just block its Mac adresses from your router.

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              It’s easy. “They must have changed something and it broke. Luckily I planned ahead and got the firetv so you could still watch everything as usual”.

              Bonus points because it’s not a lie, they changed the tos, and you are now this clever guy that prepared a plan b in case something stopped working because you didn’t want them to suffer. Intelligent, loving Melatonin.

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              To be honest I would, the more they think you can fix anything the more annoying they are about fixing everything even if it’s not even possible. From my experiences in the past I just would tell them there was a update and it stopped the TV from connecting to online and there’s nothing you can do about it

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          does the fire stick have the ability to wake the tv up? in that case, just hide the TV remote.

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          Yes from a hardware and user experience perspective, and a more pessimistic maybe/not really from a privacy perspective. I think smart TVs are a little more aggressive with their anti user changes because they see it as a captive audience. They market the hardware specs, then add ads to the UI. Streaming sticks really only have their user interface and user experience to market, so they’re a little less aggressive with the negative changes.

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                  There are good reasons for it that you’re not grasping, but I’m pretty sure your behavior in your responses in this thread is why no one is bother to try to interact with you and explain them. I know its why I’m not bothering to explain them to you at least. I hope you get the streaming device experience you desire.

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                    Considering the initial post is about privacy concerns, saying that one spying device is better than another because it is more user-friendly is stupid.

                    I’m understanding the points, I’m just saying the reasoning is idiotic.

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              That’s like saying that all spying is equal and all information is of equal value.