I posted awhile ago that Amazon's way to thwart all the people not doing everything that Amazon wants them to do is to bring in Top qualified people to remove Android or is it Amazon's Android and replace it with 100% Amazon Software. Think it was too big a job so they went with Linux/Amazon Software on their very latest products - so your Firestick and mine plus zillions of others will no longer work. They will then pull the plug on Updates for our "Old" Firesticks and cast us aside. Currently they are trying to get us to download some "Changes" I believe, which will block certain things until they are ready to drop the older sticks completely. Best not to allow any changes/Updates if they look dodgy I have heard.