Comments on: Amazon blocks Fire launcher-switching tool LauncherHijack—ineffectively https://teleread.org/2019/05/02/amazon-blocks-fire-launcher-switching-tool-launcherhijack-ineffectively/ Blog on ebooks, publishing, libraries, tech, and related topics Thu, 16 Apr 2020 01:04:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Ryan Jones https://teleread.org/2019/05/02/amazon-blocks-fire-launcher-switching-tool-launcherhijack-ineffectively/#comment-126207 Thu, 16 Apr 2020 01:04:19 +0000 http://teleread.org/?p=167763#comment-126207 Has anyone been able to make the Microsoft Launcher work around this Kindle launcher block? I’d like to use this launcher so I can continue to monitor and limit her device usage.

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]]> By: Emperor Trump https://teleread.org/2019/05/02/amazon-blocks-fire-launcher-switching-tool-launcherhijack-ineffectively/#comment-123473 Wed, 15 Jan 2020 22:16:53 +0000 http://teleread.org/?p=167763#comment-123473 And it was almost 48 hours before Launcher Hijack was updated to work again.

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]]> By: Chris Meadows https://teleread.org/2019/05/02/amazon-blocks-fire-launcher-switching-tool-launcherhijack-ineffectively/#comment-114184 Fri, 17 May 2019 14:56:40 +0000 http://teleread.org/?p=167763#comment-114184 In reply to Robert Wynne.

That’s odd, because mine are still there. I’ve posted about it to the forum thread…

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]]> By: Robert Wynne https://teleread.org/2019/05/02/amazon-blocks-fire-launcher-switching-tool-launcherhijack-ineffectively/#comment-114183 Fri, 17 May 2019 14:34:00 +0000 http://teleread.org/?p=167763#comment-114183 In reply to Chris Meadows.

At the bottom of the screen there is a left pointing arrow, a small circle and a small square for navigating around the system. Amazon have removed these and to get them back you need to uninstall launcher hijack. Without them you cannot go back to an earlier page or go back to the start screen. When I uninstall ed hijack, amazon automatically downloaded the os from scratch

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]]> By: Chris Meadows https://teleread.org/2019/05/02/amazon-blocks-fire-launcher-switching-tool-launcherhijack-ineffectively/#comment-114180 Fri, 17 May 2019 13:30:33 +0000 http://teleread.org/?p=167763#comment-114180 In reply to Robert Wynne.

Navigation tools at the bottom of which page?

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]]> By: Robert Wynne https://teleread.org/2019/05/02/amazon-blocks-fire-launcher-switching-tool-launcherhijack-ineffectively/#comment-114179 Fri, 17 May 2019 12:50:09 +0000 http://teleread.org/?p=167763#comment-114179 A few days later 16-05-2019 and amazon have removed the navigation tools at the bottom of the page unless you delete launcher hijack. Isnt this hacking. If so its illegal in Europe. Who will challenge Amazon in the courts?

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]]> By: scorpiux70 https://teleread.org/2019/05/02/amazon-blocks-fire-launcher-switching-tool-launcherhijack-ineffectively/#comment-113779 Tue, 07 May 2019 18:42:33 +0000 http://teleread.org/?p=167763#comment-113779 Screw Jeff Bezos and his Amazon techies. I own 2 Fire HD 8 tablets and if I want the Google Android experience on them, I paid for them and I’ll do what the hell I want with them. Furthermore their little block was indeed laughable. Got around it in under 5 minutes using AppCloner. Thanks for your article Chris and continued success.

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]]> By: Bill Rosenblatt https://teleread.org/2019/05/02/amazon-blocks-fire-launcher-switching-tool-launcherhijack-ineffectively/#comment-113705 Fri, 03 May 2019 15:53:32 +0000 http://teleread.org/?p=167763#comment-113705 Chris,

The reason why Apple’s DRM has never been hacked (I haven’t found a hack to it either, and I’ve looked pretty hard) is not because “few people bother to buy Apple ebooks” or “Apple keeps the DRM updated.” It’s because the DRM was designed in the first place to meet Hollywood requirements and then retooled for iBooks.

Hollywood studios’ content protection chiefs evaluate DRMs way more rigorously than book publishing people ever have done. (Some of them are former technology architects of DRMs themselves.) Hollywood learned its lesson from the DVD and Blu-ray days. None of the five major DRMs for downloads and streams that have been blessed by Hollywood have been hacked, at least not in any consumer-accessible way.

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