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After luring customers with low prices, Amazon stuffs Fire TVs with ads (arstechnica.com)
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[–] Evilcoleslaw 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

and a separate little Android TV box I got from AliExpress for 25 bucks were I only use Kodi.

Yeah, so you may not be seeing ads, but there's a non-zero chance you have a botnet infested device on your network instead.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is there a way to check if the little Android box you already have is one of these infected devices?

[–] Evilcoleslaw 2 points 1 year ago

Here's the GitHub repo of a software developer that was one of the first to find this, and I think the first to make it really public. It has some info on how to tell and possible steps to do some cleanup.

https://github.com/DesktopECHO/T95-H616-Malware