Amazon adds annoying streaming service buttons to its Fire TV remote

Adventuress Is coming with the third generation of its Alexa voice remote, And includes some unwanted new buttons that will take you to Amazon Prime, Netflix, Disney Plus and the Hulu app. If you are among those who use all of those streaming services accurately and regularly, this remote can be a good upgrade. But for everyone else, the button will only add friction and annoyance to the Fire TV control experience.

We here The Reporter Door We’ve talked about why we didn’t like these buttons before. They can turn your remote into a canvas that is not meant for permanent advertising for the services you can use, and they take up space that can be used for buttons that give you access to the services Carry away do Use. If you say, don’t subscribe to Disney Plus or Hulu, then the buttons are the best, useless for you and, at the very least, waiting to be accidentally pressed, leaving you to return from an app that Begging you to subscribe.

The obvious option is to use buttons to make them unsuitable for services that do not put permanent branding on them. If the remote comes with four buttons instead, which you can use to open your favorite streaming services, it will be a very different story. Alas, it is not. But hey, now the voice control button has an Alexa button for even more branding! (I would agree that it is not as bad, given that it was already said Alexa Voice remote.)

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I don’t want to make it sound like some annoying button (which may actually be useful to some people) is the end of the world or that this new remote has no redeeming properties. There is actually another new button that takes you to a “guide”, showing you a cable-esque timeline of all the content available to you from a live provider, such as Sling, Hulu, or YouTube TV.

Unlike the branded one, it is small and not brightly colored, so it’s easy to ignore if you don’t need it (and it won’t be in the form of a casual press). I want remote producers to let us choose those functions on their remotes, especially since the streaming service landscape is sometimes changing, and people have subscribed to one service for a few months and then switched to another Have been.