• oxjox@lemmy.ml
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      8 months ago

      I just read an article about how they’re increasing advertising on their Fire TVs. Rest assured, an Amazon OS is an Advertising OS.

      Although, from what I’ve gathered of public opinion online, there’s LOTS of people willing to forgo their privacy in exchange for free shit.

      Edit: Oh…

      They say they expect Vega to begin shipping on Fire TVs early next year.

      And that article https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/11/after-luring-customers-with-low-prices-amazon-stuffs-fire-tvs-with-ads/

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        8 months ago

        Android is already free software, and see how far that gets you. The kicker is that you’re tied into their services (with all the data harvesting, targeted advertising and monetisation that that involves).

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            8 months ago

            Yes, because it is permissively open source, not only are these companies free to build what they want - we are entitled to that same right. We therefore created LineageOS and GrapheneOS, and its really great.

            There’s also a lot of motivated people getting regular Linux distributions running on mobile devices too, so we have that as well