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Amazon Fire TV is now blocking some apps with fullscreen pop-up, no easy workaround

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As previously reported, Amazon is now more aggressively blocking apps on Fire TV with a focus on apps that enable piracy. more…

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Amazon has become very serious with the blocking of apps on Fire TV devices and has introduced a new technique to prevent users from opening some applications. If only one warning was shown before, now the load of certain apps has been completely blocked. The environment of Fire TVs, both Stick devices and televisions with this operating system, is complicated for users. From Amazon they have decided to take a step further against applications t…

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Amazon is currently changing the Fire TV ecosystem very strongly and the first select stick with a rather limited software was probably only the beginning. Although one is already strongly anti-apps that can be accused of piracy at the same time. Various apps that Amazon considers to be "evil" are now blocked and that can't be easily avoided. So we can observe how the so far very open and free Fire TV ecosystem gets significantly more rules impo…

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9 to 5 Google broke the news in on Monday, December 15, 2025.
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