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What they said is that the devices are rooted and they didn't vet the products for malware. So given that most of them were rooted, it's fair to assume that most others would be too and would also be at risk of malware.
Because the way these products are manufactured in China is basically like ordering off Etsy. You can't trust random people 10000 miles away to have your best interests at heart.
dude, don't order unaudited tech and put it on your network LOL.
there is this really cool place called a court, and i can sue people there for selling me deliberately malicious products. if the company is not in the US, i can't do that.
so would you recommend random android TV boxes off aliexpress to normal people?
And thus you have given the exact same sentiment they have. Congratulations you agree that these devices are possibly dangerous to your personal information and should not be used until proven otherwise. That is what they said and it's the first thing I told you they said.
No you didn't. You claimed they said all of the boxes were infected with malware and that is objectively false. You're not going to actually watch the content and simply dismiss all of their problems with rooted android devices from strangers thousands of miles away in a jurisdiction you have no recourse in, then none of your criticism is valid.