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[–] abbadon420@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Isn't a firestick basically a chromecast? I mean, google is a shitty company in matters about privacy or ethics, but amazon isn't much better

[–] Blackout@kbin.social 7 points 11 months ago

I can cast to my internet-disabled TV anything to it, including pirate streaming sites with no ads. 20 years ago I ran a hdmi from my desktop and used a wireless touchpad to load downloaded stuff. It truly is the golden age of piracy

[–] passepartout@feddit.de 5 points 11 months ago

They have been built onto android until now, but i read that they wanted to ditch that and make their own os from scratch

[–] yukichigai@kbin.social 5 points 11 months ago

They're more like AndroidTV boxes with a full menu and HDMI-CEC support, only they came out back in the day when Chromecasts were just for casting. They were also dirt cheap; unfortunately that's because they were made with bargain-basement parts which often failed or started to overheat easily a few months in.

[–] Skimmer@lemmy.zip 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yeah, Chromecasts are much better than Fire TV's, due to the more control you have over them and how easy it is change the launcher vs. Amazon actively preventing it. Basically same price and budget as well. Plus Google running a newer version of Android in general vs. Amazon's, etc. Chromecasts are probably lesser of the two evils imo.