{"id":1109190,"date":"2023-02-20T14:32:34","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T19:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1109190"},"modified":"2023-02-20T14:32:34","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T19:32:34","slug":"amazon-hamstrings-free-app-that-makes-fire-tv-remotes-reprogrammable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1109190","title":{"rendered":"Amazon hamstrings free app that makes Fire TV remotes reprogrammable"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Enlarge<\/a> \/<\/span> The Fire TV Stick 4K Max. You’re pretty much stuck with those streaming-service buttons on the bottom of the remote. (credit: Amazon)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

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Amazon doesn’t want you messing with the Fire TV remote’s buttons. After all, those buttons connecting users to streaming services like Netflix and Hulu are a source of ad revenue for Amazon. The company recently issued a software update to the Fire TV Stick 4K Max<\/a> that blocks the functionality of Remapper, a free app that lets users reprogram the remote’s third-party app-launcher buttons.<\/p>\n

Buttons dedicated to a specific TV-streaming service, like Disney+ or Peacock, have been a way for streaming services to attempt to drive subscriptions and viewership since 2011 when Netflix started doing it<\/a>. Companies like Amazon and Roku receive money for placing a button for a streaming service on their remotes. Amazon hasn’t disclosed how much money it makes from this function, but in 2019, Bloomberg<\/a> reported that Roku charges streaming companies $1 for every remote sold with one of the service’s buttons.<\/p>\n

With that in mind, Amazon’s apparent resistance to Remapper isn’t surprising. But for users who don’t have a Netflix subscription, for example, they may want to reprogram a Fire TV remote’s dedicated Netflix button to launch a service they have a subscription to.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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