humblemuzzu/dumbtv
Take the ads, tracking and clutter out of your Fire TV over ADB, no root. Every step can be undone. Comes with its own open-source home screen.
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Your TV should do what you paid for. Ads, tracking and clutter out of your Fire TV. Your apps and HDMI inputs stay. dumbtv.org · Get started · What it blocks · Devices · Get help As seen in TechCrunch · TechRadar · Tom's Guide · Gizmodo · XDA · It's FOSS · and more than 100 others I had a Fire TV Edition television that had become painful to use. Menus lagged, apps took ages to open, and the home screen was mostly ads. When I looked, it had 129 MB of free memory, and much of the rest went to apps that started on their own and to Amazon services that report what you watch. So I asked a coding agent to clean it up over ADB, and posted what happened. People asked for the scripts, so I put them here and shared them. Since then, owners of…
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What this repository does
Take the ads, tracking and clutter out of your Fire TV over ADB, no root. Every step can be undone. Comes with its own open-source home screen.
Repository facts
- Owner
- humblemuzzu
- Primary language
- Java
- Stars
- 1,865
- Forks
- 190
- Open issues + pull requests
- 31
- License
- Other
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- main
- Created
- 2026-10-18T17:04:12.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-10-27T09:02:16.000Z
Topics and intended use
Owner-supplied topics: ad-blocking, adb, android-tv, debloat, dns-filter, fire-os, fire-tv, firetv, launcher, privacy, smart-tv, telemetry
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