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Amazon is now automatically playing fullscreen video ads on Fire TV (9to5google.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Why would support care, this is clearly a feature not a bug. Did you at least demand a refund on the device?