If I hadn’t already disabled autoplays and blocked it from dialing home for updates, this might be a concern.
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I have a fire tv cube just direct launch into apps to avoid this. For example instead of powering on the fire tv with power button I tell Alexa to open the app I need.
Down side is this doesn’t really work with sieloaded apps like smart tube
I complained about this to "support" a few days ago. A full screen ad before the home screen with the top 1/3 an ad and the bottom 1/3 ads.
Straight up told them I will pick another manufacturer this weekend.
I'm burned out on protecting myself from smart devices. Maybe just a dumb screen this round.
Edit: I have every single privacy setting set to off, but some update added a new category and defaults to on. Don't know how long Amazon has been spying on me or what they took.
My device has autoplay off already. It may have stopped a full screen video ad, but there is a full screen picture ad instead.
A full screen ad before the home screen with the top 1/3 an ad and the bottom 1/3 ads.
We're almost there
Why would support care, this is clearly a feature not a bug. Did you at least demand a refund on the device?
They didn't whatsoever. I expected that. They said they sent my complaint through so I hope I tickled a 0 into a 1 somewhere in their sea of data, but I don't expect results.
Oh yeah, they followed up with an offer to buy a new TV. Like, that was a little cold there, dude.
Lols :)