Amazon blames piracy apps with malware for killing new Fire Stick sideloading ^48.2%

Ars Technica - By Scharon Harding - 6/30/2026, 9:04 PM

Negativity Bias 18.2% - Appeal to Authority 16.1% - Availability Heuristic 14.6%

Amazon is blaming the threat of malware for its decision to stop releasing new Fire Sticks that support sideloading apps from outside Amazon’s Appstore. Amazon has released two Fire Stick models that use its proprietary, Linux-based operating system, Vega OS. Previous Fire Sticks ran Fire OS, which is an Android fork based on the Android... more