How to Sideload Apps on Firestick - And 3 Reasons Not to Bother

Sideloading allows you to get apps downloaded to your Firestick that aren't available in the official app store. But is this legal? Is It safe? Craig takes you through how to sideload apps onto your Firestick, and then gives a few good reasons why you might not want to bother.

0:00 What is sideloading? Is it legal?
1:20 How to sideload on Firestick
1:58 What can you do with sideloading?
2:50 Potential legal issues
4:25 Online safety issues
5:30 Is there any need for sideloading these days?

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#firestick #sideloading #cordcutting

[loganq]

Amazon does a terrible job at updating even the apps they do host. They let them go stale to the point of not even working. Sideloading is usually required if you want to run anything from this decade.

[Physco]

Anyone else get the feeling either he hasn't a clue about side loading besides what he figured out for the video or be is full of it and does sideload and doesn't care about the "morality" of it and this was all lip-service?

[Richie]

FireTV supports third party apps installation with its sideload feature.Thanks for the info Craig.

[renorockstar]

There are certain shows that I watch. I don't like commercials. I got rid of $150 cable bill. I got tired of registering visa gift cards for free trials.

[casinochef]

Peacock still is not on the fire stick the only way I can watch it is by side loading

[chestpains]

For a sec I thought you were gonna mention a damn vpn sponsor at 5:41

[fictionalcharacter]

Downloaded Zachary's justice league and watched it on my full had TV after putting it on a pen drive. No privacy issues or anything.

[BoysnbrryBovine]

Anyone else here for the 24 hr challenge.?

[Ghostyk]

Well. if i pay like any US citizen for HBO MAX, i watch it even though i have to sideload the app.

[gilachess]

Definitely, just you or others like you. I love my Android apps like text editors like DroidEdit, terminal programs, and FTP programs. I just don't like FIreOS limiting the vast amount of software out there I can use. Perhaps that's just me. I am a tech nerd. I use Android for writing codes, maintaining my websites, and transferring files between different devices via FTP.

[kfsmpg]

What? no wonder I see reviews from a year ago, nothing here to see just move along, he is probably being paid anyway to say all this anyway, I really don't think he cares what anyone does with their sideloading as he calls it, besides the word " sideload" sounds so ominous, you know grown-up words.

[svetlanaivnitskaya]

But if I want to get let’s say Russian channels for free what can I do?

[darksoulnj]

Worst...info...ever. Been sideloading for 3 years. You couldn't be anymore wrong. Sorry.

[jamesmccarte]

Here is another reason not to sideload apps: since you can mirror a mobile screen to a tv or a streaming device, just install it on your phone/tablet and do screen mirroring