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They can fuck off if they think I'm buying anything with Amazon spyware built into it.
No one is forcing you to connect your TV to the Internet. You can use it in offline mode and it will work just fine.
Hopefully this is true because I’ve heard from people trying to do just that with other “Smart TVs” that won’t work at all without an internet connection and account at least for initial setup.
My definition of "just fine" isn't a weird little Android spinoff. TV should have a normal input selector, maybe a settings menu.
I'll take the Google spyware over the Amazon spyware any day
Lolwat
Amazon Fire TV is just Amazon spyware on top of Google spyware anyways
The goal is to deny all of the parasites access!