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Re:Amazon blocks long-running FireTV capability, Breaking ap... by kllrnohj on Sunday February 25, 2024 @05:08PM (#39505380)
A sufficiently advanced user can still install something like LADB or shizuku or even a custom rom. This is extremely unnecessary to be a bundled OS permission.
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Re:Amazon blocks long-running FireTV capability, Breaking ap... by bakugo on Sunday February 25, 2024 @05:58PM (#39505812)
> A sufficiently advanced user can still install something like LADB or shizuku or even a custom rom

Not without unlocking the bootloader (which can only be done on a few phones nowadays) and having to deal with getting locked out of a bunch of apps and functionalities as a result of Google's "security".

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