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<p>On 22/10/2023 16:20, Tom Bishop wrote:</p>
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<div>On Sun, Oct 22, 2023, 10:07 AM Paul Harrison <<a
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a quick heads up regarding the FireTV Sticks. I've heard
from what <br>
I believe to be a legit source that Amazon, as part of
their never <br>
ending battle to lock down their devices, are starting to
push an update <br>
that actively removes some side loaded apps. It's not
clear if it is all <br>
apps or just some they are going after but Amazon has
always been clear <br>
that they do not support side loading apps. I think it's
all part of <br>
their effort to lock down the sticks like their recent
attempt to <br>
prevent you changing the home screen so they can push
their paid for <br>
content on you etc.<br>
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Paul H. <br>
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<div dir="auto">Eh that sounds more like fud to me, unless the
take the developer option away which is built into Android not
sure how they would stop that. If they take the option to side
load away not sure how developers would do what they needed to
do. Again more of a sore point where vendors try to lock in
users and not "allow" them to do what they want with hardware
they purchased. IMHO I wouldn't need to side load if they
would allow me to install from the play store, all my apps are
in the play store and that is all I am looking for. Just
another corporation doing what corporations due, if they start
playing games like that then I will go elsewhere, sigh...</div>
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<p>Well I hope you are right. I think I'm right in saying legit apps
have to be signed so maybe they could use that to detect and
remove or hide non signed apps? <br>
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<p>Anyway I did just stumble across a video on YouTube about this
very issue. It seems more than one person has seen the problem
after an update with some side loaded apps disappearing from their
Home Screen. The good news is they haven't actually been removed
just hidden \0/ There's at least a couple of way to get them back
apparently. When you think about it would be a really bad idea for
Amazon to deliberately remove something their users have installed
from a device they own. That would piss a lot of users off and
would likely create a lot of bad publicity for them. Much better
to "accidentally" make a programming error that hides them from
users so they can't use them :)</p>
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<p>Paul H.<br>
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