You've found the site, it matches the TV fine — and then the login wall. A 20-character password with symbols and a D-pad is a chore. The fix is choosing the right tricks. Here are the ways that genuinely work.
1. The native on-screen keyboard
Slow but universal. It is the default and works everywhere. Use the D-pad; prediction on a Fire TV is average. Only use it for the shortest credentials.
2. A phone as the keyboard
This is the fastest for long logins. Type with your real keyboard on the phone and watch the TV screen submit. Tools that can send text the webview accepts are generally the winner when a password has digits, symbols and capitals.
3. The browser that remembers you
For sites you use all the time, the cleanest path is having the web app keep you signed in. This is what a TV-focused browser does: it tokens the daily-login, so the on-screen keyboard is a rare event rather than a daily one.
Bottom line
Typing on a TV is a human-interface problem, solved by not needing to type. Sign in once; keep the app at hand. The moment you stop typing frequent passwords into a D-pad, the whole TV browsing experience gets ten times friendlier.
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