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An Xbox/PlayStation controller is cheap and high quality.

You don't necessarily have to flash a custom firmware. Rooting the TV and killing the ad processes is usually sufficient.

Indeed, many of these TVs serve ads by default on their screensavers and home screens.

The experience with this is so much better. Hacking most Tuya based devices has become extremely easy when you use https://docs.libretiny.eu/ Replacing MyQ with ratgdo was one of the best IoT decisions I have ever made.

The consent screens say that they "may continue running in the background after you close the app".

I am struggling to see how exactly this is even considered piracy. Nobody was going to stream music in low quality off a slow AA server anyway. It's archival.

If you spoof user agent, you will get more captchas because it won't match their other fingerprinting.