[kyriakos]

Which would make firesticks useless for me. I use them primarily as Plex / Kodi clients.

[shubb]

Useless to the you, but due amazon these are loss making hardware that exists to sell amazon prime ppv so they would make more money if you and me didn't buy...

[permo-w]

if they wanted to prevent side-loading, why do they allow it via a free app in their app store?

[fyokdrigd]

if you cannot prevent, at least get metrics.

[permo-w]

the point is that they could prevent, if they wanted to. they have no obligation to allow that third party app in their store