LeFrog

I see where you are coming from, and I agree that amazon shits on privacy. But this is another level compared to “only” spying on your users. From the article:

After devices appeared online, a stub application called x.cpe or com.oemservice would phone home. This package did not have any malicious capabilities of its own, but it had the system-level permissions necessary to install malware modules at the operator’s behest. It also disabled Play Protect, which would have otherwise flagged the silently installed packages as malicious.

If I get this right, fireTV sticks are not in there?

If they wanted AI slop they would have asked some LLM themselves. Please stop dumping your slop.

I agree, the thread is not damning and I also don’t think that the maintainer(s?) are bad people or whatever. But IMHO they should be called out on this “I dont want to be political” bullshit because this is basically saying “I don’t care about others as long as I am not directly affected”. This may be not their intention, but ath the end of the day this behavior enables all the Trumps and Putins in this world to do what they do in the first place.

TBH, this GitHub discussion does not look good on Immich :(