27-06-2025
More popular Fire TV Stick streaming apps are BLOCKED as Amazon issues serious warning to all users
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AMAZON has blocked several popular but dodgy streaming apps from Fire TV Sticks in a fresh crackdown.
The tech giant had already blacklisted Flix Vision and Live NetTV, confirming to The Sun this week that the pair "exhibited malicious behaviour".
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Two more apps disabled over concerns about people's data being at risk
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It now seems that the firm has targeted more potentially dangerous apps.
Blink Streamz and Ocean Streamz are the latest to be disabled, according to AFTVNews.
A message apparently appears on screen warning users that the two apps "can put your device or personal data at risk".
Ocean Streamz's website already flashes up as dangerous when trying to access it on Google Chrome.
People are able to download shady apps because of Amazon's open source tech on Fire TV Sticks, meaning you can download apps from outside the company's own app store as you please.
Amazon has faced growing criticism for its response to illegal streaming.
Broadcaster Sky has hit out at the US firm, saying it does not do enough to tackle piracy.
Illegal streaming is estimated to be costing the industry "hundreds of millions of dollars".
Nick Herm, chief operating officer at Sky, recently accused Amazon of failing to do "enough engagement to address some of those problems, where people are buying these devices in bulk".
He also believes that modified Fire Sticks "probably" make up "about half of the piracy" in the UK alone.
