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Amazon's FireTV experience is pretty bad. Even as someone who pays for Prime, it's hard to escape the "ad carousel" interface when you just want to watch TV. T
by smoldesu 3y ago
Amazon's FireTV experience is pretty bad. Even as someone who pays for Prime, it's hard to escape the "ad carousel" interface when you just want to watch TV.
That being said, I still use mine regularly for one reason; sideloading. You can install YouTube clients with SponsorBlock and ad-skipping built in. You can download Steam's streaming client and connect a controller, or load up Kodi with SFTP streaming from your local network. The quality of third-party apps is so good that I just ignore the FireTV experience as a whole and skip straight to the apps.
Hopefully someone makes/has made a launcher app that bypasses Amazon's stuff. The underlying hardware is perfect for my needs; the first-party software is the crutch.
Edit: prayers answered? https://gitlab.com/flauncher/flauncher https://gitlab.com/flauncher/flauncher
- _ea1k 3y agoYeah, tbh, the fact that they allow side loading makes up for this, IMO. I still wouldn't necessarily buy one. I've found that I like the Google TV ecosystem a little better. But being able to sideloaded whenever needed makes it much better to me than some of the "less intrusive" options.
- vladvasiliu 3y ago> Even as someone who pays for Prime, it's hard to escape the "ad carousel" interface when you just want to watch TV. I've recently (last week-ish) started to get the ads, too (I'm in France). But they don't seem to have made their way in the actual Prime Video app. I actually always used the "app" because I much preferred the organization.
- wkat4242 3y agoHere in Spain they've been in there for 2 years. Not even their shows, but for chocolates, perfumes etc
- wkat4242 3y agoWhich YouTube client do you use if I may ask?
- smoldesu 3y agoThis is the one I'd prefer, if hypothetically I did such a thing :) https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube