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0:00 So, I made this video a few days ago when I noticed that the installation behavior has now changed on certain streaming applications where they're now being blocked from even installing on your Fire Stick or your Fire TV devices. As you can see here, what's happening now is at the installation change, your application that you're trying to sideloadad is being checked against a list of safe applications. If the application is on the block list, it's now been instantly blocked. So, for a quick demonstration, if I try one of these, let's go for this one here. Let's now click on install. But what we discovered in the background, this application you're trying to install is now being checked against that blacklist. And if it is found to be on that blacklist, you can now no longer install this on your device as I demonstrated here. As you can see
0:45 straight away before the installation even completes, I now get told that app installation has been blocked. This application is blocked because it uses or provides access to. So, how can we now potentially fix this where if you can't even install the application, how can you try to clone it or modify or anything else because that application is not allowed to be installed on your device? Well, fortunately, there is a fix as of February 2026 where there's now a brand new version of the app cloner fully updated and has a brand new feature which means you can now clone applications before you've even installed the application. So, super excited to share this new application with you. new update. Make sure you are subscribed with all notifications because as you've seen things are moving
1:30 very fast in this space. So let me jump over to my third generation Fire TV Cube and let's install the brand new version of app cloner. So we can navigate to my website which is techdoc.com or you can always type in the short code 5342. Let's click on go and this will take you directly to my website. Now as I mentioned before the developer of app cloner has done a fantastic job. He's constantly adding new updates, new features. Just trying to battle all of the different scenarios that we keep on experiencing. As you know, it is going to be a cat and mouse game. So, they may block the app installation. So, we have to now work out another method where you can clone something before you even install it. So, let's get the latest version. Click on the hamburger menu. Go to where it says tutorials. And you can
2:17 see now right at the top, we have a new version for the month of February 2026. Let's scroll down. You can see some information here. You're looking for that single download button, which is this link here. Let's click on that. And this will download the latest version directly onto your device. Now, the link on my website takes you directly to his repository, which I did check with him. So, when you download from my website, you're always getting the latest version of this application. Let's click on install. Give that a second. That installs. Okay. Now, if you do have any issues installing this on your device, I would recommend uninstall the previous version, then get the latest version directly from our website. Once you've done that, we can now click on done. Let's now press the home button. Let's open up the latest version of App Cloner. Let's click on that. Now, you
3:04 can see from the initial launch, it does look very, very similar to the previous version. But what you'll notice on the top right, we now have a new plus button. And what this basically means is you can now select a repository or a source area for your applications. And you can then modify them, clone them, make changes to them. So these are the applications I've already got installed on my device, which is fine. But because I'm trying to use an application that I cannot install anymore, we have to click on the plus button on the top right. So let's do that now. Okay. So import APK from storage. Let's grant that permission. Let's go to permissions. You can see by default it is denied. Let's press the select button there. Click on allow. And that should now be allowed. Let's press back again. Back again. And we can see
3:51 now it's now searching my drive, my internal storage to find any applications it can find. Let's scroll down and we can see some applications here. So this is a newer version here. This is an older version. This is a very old version. Then you got some other ones here. You got this one, which is obviously historically very difficult to clone, but we can see that. Then you got this one here as well which is the the newer version. So let's say for example I want to uh start with this first one at the top which is version 451. Let's say if I try to install it on my Fire Stick, it's instantly blocked for me. So how can I now fix it? Well, let's select the application there. And we can see now you can clone it or you can just resign it. So let's click on clone.
4:40 This should now take the APK installation file, do a clone of that, modify the package name, and then allow me to use that on my device. Let's give that a second. If this works first time, make sure you smash that like and subscribe button. Okay, I now get the prompt to install it. Let's click on uh install. Click on install again. And I will do that key test that is not just installing or cloning the application. Does the application actually launch? Okay. And can you actually stream content through it? So I will do that as soon as this finishes. Let's give that a second. I'm not going to click on anything else that's installed. Okay. Let me now try to open it directly from here. Let's click on open. Okay. So I click on
5:26 allow. Okay. Let's just try one of these. So random one here. Let's go for this one. Not sure what that is. Click on play. and then five 4 3 2 and that starts playing straight away. So it just shows you guys that even if Amazon now start blocking applications before you can even install them, you can potentially use this new version of app cloner to clone the package, clone the application with a new name that should then allow you to launch it on your device. Of course, it's not going to work with every application, with every version, but it is just another option we can try depending on what you're using to see if you can use that to get around your particular blog. Let's back out of that. Let's click on the plus
6:11 again. Now, just in the interest of time, I'm not going to demonstrate every application because there are many, many streaming applications out there. That's always one of the the easiest fixes I can give to people that when they say, "My application is now blocked. I can now no longer launch it. I'm getting the warning message. How can I fix the application? I'd say probably the quickest things always to do is to find other applications and there's still I would say five or six applications out there which are not blogged which give you access to all of the stuff that you are looking for. You just have to be a bit creative in your research and you I'm sure you'll get recommendations for alternatives which are still working today. This one here, let's say you can now no longer install this. I can click on that, click on clone
6:56 and once again now so even this application is not installed on my device just by having the APK installation file I can now use the new version of app cloner clone that application change that name change that package and see if it then allows me to launch it on my device. Let's give that a second. Let's install that again. And again I will test to see does it actually work and allow me to play content through that. That's now installed. Let's see if I can open that up. Okay, that was actually crashing on launch. Let me try that again. Open that up. Does that start? Okay, now that actually crashes on launch. So, just to show you that it is going to depend on the application. Some of them will clone, okay, and allow you to watch content. Others will just crash on launch. This other one here I did cover in my previous video. You can see it's
7:42 disabled. Now, if you are looking for another version of that, you just need to find the the latest version, the latest beta version that will then allow you to use it on your device. The only thing I will suggest that if you are going to be trying these kind of applications, it is pretty much essential for you to use a VPN. Some of these blocks are region specific, which means some people are using the same application in some areas completely unaffected, whereas the same application in other areas are being blocked. So, I would always recommend activate your VPN. You can see mine was activated throughout this entire test. It just gives you that protection. Allows you to use a new IP address and it also stops your ISP from throttling you. Particularly when you are streaming content like this, it is always advisable to use a VPN. I personally
8:29 recommend IP Vanish. I use it on all of my devices. They support unlimited connection. So you can use it on five sticks, 10 Android TVs, 20 laptops. All of those devices can be covered with one account and you can then completely secure your device, protect your privacy. Using my link does help support the channel. So many thanks for doing that. Do leave me a comment below. Let me know what you think and I'll hopefully catch up with you guys real soon. Thanks.
