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@TheOctonaut
TL;DR XDA forums?

At some point I’ve searched for such, but you’d have to open them (basing on my MiBox 4k) to get to the debugging pins, and then trip widewine Digital Restrictions Management. Which would make a “smart” box/TV probably useless.

I’ve managed to go as far as installing NewPipe Sponsor Block trough F-Droid, after sideloading, trough FTP. And that only because there was a file manager app available for AndroidTV
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@Faceman2K23

@TheOctonaut
So my 2€¢ would be to get a SBC and use a specialized Linux distro.

@Faceman2K23

@AphoticDev
-> (@GrapheneOS offers a good way out of this, but it’s only for Google hardware, which is in the race to the bottom with stripping hardware features.)

@moosetwin

@AphoticDev
Unless Google opens it up in revenge, then no, not totally unprotected. But they did set the rooting path to expand the attack surface needlessly.
It’s a consequence of locking up your device, so you can’t control it to serve as a vehicle for ads, DRM, and data mining.

Security 3rd, otherwise there would be no problems with patching.

F.e. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-android-patch-gap-makes-n-days-as-dangerous-as-zero-days/

Still one needs to be VERY aware what consequences rooting has.

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@moosetwin

@BraBraBra
Yes, you are. Especially that you’ve just left a specific context of copying a given video or given medical product for a very broad context of “Amazon doesn’t a monopoly on making videos”, that can’t be denied, and skipping the medical part.

That’s Motte-and-bailey fallacy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_fallacy

So if Amazon has the right to exclusively sell you video then pharma can sell you exclusively gouge you for lifesaving drugs.

Don’t get diabetes in 'murica if you have the chance.

@BraBraBra
No they didn’t. Amazon still offers the copied product. They only remove it when it’s inconvenient to pay residuals.

But if you argue for intellectual “property” exclusivity, then you argue for monopoles, inhibition of innovation (try making something like Google’s project Ara) and protect life-threatening practices of the pharma industry (why you can’t start making insulin in the USA or make a covid vaccine in the Global South?).

@stappern

@Gormadt
Sergeant Murphys Laws of Combat Operations, 6: If it’s stupid but it works, it isn’t stupid.

@RandomLegend