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Re:After luring customers with low prices, Amazon stuffs Fir... by buildbot on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @03:00PM (#38196088)
Even better, if you can avoid accepting the ToS for the apps, they don't even start. My Samsung TV is so snappy now because I reset it and ignore the accept ToS button :)
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Re:After luring customers with low prices, Amazon stuffs Fir... by bozhark on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @04:26PM (#38197317)
Makes sense.

Telemetry takes packets out of your bandwidth.

These boxes have constant calls so… yeah free that space up

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Re:After luring customers with low prices, Amazon stuffs Fir... by buildbot on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @04:46PM (#38197562)
This is step beyond that, none of the crappy Tizen apps or anything start at all. The TV never gets network access of course :)
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