[ale] SW root for Amazon Fire 8HD gen-7 possible

[Jim Kinney]

Aaaaaand...

That 131K line anti-tracking hosts file is published.....

On Mon, 2019-03-04 at 15:12 -0500, DJ-Pfulio via Ale wrote:
> Seems someone found a software root last week, 26th, for the 2017
> AmazonFire 8HD tablets, finally! It provides a temporary root with
> SELinuxdisabled.
> It is 3-5 commands, depending on your existing developer options.
> Inshort, freakin' easy.
> https://forum.xda-developers.com/hd8-hd10/general/discussion-root-progress-fire-hd-8-t3743024/page104
> 
> Tested it. Working here.  YMMV. Be careful and don't brick yours.
> All I've done so far is replace the 1 line /etc/hosts with my 131K
> lineanti-tracking variant. Verified that the worst tracking sites
> weren'tavailable, then rebooted the tablet and verified they still
> weren'tavailable.
> I may want to install a real firewall and busybox shortly, but
> haven'tat this point.I did not install
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