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[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Dodgy boxes have been a massive thing here, and there's so much fearmongering in the news about how they'll steal your internet, bank details and firstborn child, when they're literally just amazon firesticks with some apks on them.

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.today 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

i mean it's partially true.. many of those weird android tv boxes have spyware loaded onto them, mostly for botnet/residential proxies and sometimes infostealers.

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 months ago

I don't doubt that, but these are just firesticks. They're not even rooted.

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 months ago

All the public iptv things for british/irish channels get aggressively taken down by sky (company), so it's probably more sustainable for these to exist this way.

[–] brie_cheese@piefed.ca 2 points 5 months ago

yeah, theyre really perfect for the average person who doesnt know shit about piracy