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Backfire TV - Take back control of your Firestick
a project by andreabenini
Updated about 1 hour ago. 1 hackers ♥️. 1 follower.

Take Back Control of Your Amazon Firestick.
Tired of Ads, a cluttered launcher, and buttons you can't change? BackFireTV is a project to liberate your Firestick from Amazon's walled garden and make it truly yours. They call it the firestick. To fight fire with fire, you need a backfire.

That's the soul of BackFireTV. To truly liberate it and return back to its core capabilities this project uses a linux script, one Android app and ADB access against Amazon's restrictive policies. We leverage these internal tools to create a "backfire" against the incessant ads and locked ecosystem, transforming your Firestick back into the useful, customizable device it was always meant to be.

Goals

I'm still defining it as a side project and something I'll surely do in the upcoming days with hw I already have. btw I'd like to register it in advance in order to work on it. I already have a somehow working concept I'll redefine later during the week

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Hack Week 25

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    • andreabenini
      about 1 hour ago by andreabenini | Reply

      I've created the project, a generic placeholder with basic description and goals. Nothing yet defined apart from the name and a basic logo. This will be a side project of my official hackweek AI project. More or less what I'll do for fun instead of yelling at Ads on TV

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