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Own a Roku TV or streaming device? You're about to see a lot more ads on your home screen (www.techradar.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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Ugh. Roku was one of the platforms with fewer ads.

Roku will be adding more ads to the home screens of its devices and TVs in the near future.
The ads will be interactive and 'shoppable' and will cover a range of industries, including restaurants and cars.
Roku already has a significant amount of ads on its home screen, and it is unclear if users will be able to change their preferences for the new ads.

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[–] LazaroFilm 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

My Roku TV is basically unusable at this point. Opening Netflix takes about 10 minutes to get to the main menu. Then launching the video is like rolling a D12. Except it lands on a 1 every time and crashes. It also restarts randomly for “updates” in the middle of watching something. I hate it. I hate it. I hate it!

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[–] DavidGA 6 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Apple TV boxes have no ads.

I know everyone here hates Apple, but, there it is.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

PiHole takes care of that.

[–] RattlerSix 6 points 8 months ago (5 children)

I just saw enough ads trying to read the damn story

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

They've already been adding them to mine. My home screen inputs got smashed into one (because I don't use any of the home screen apps, I only use the two HDMI inputs) so they could jam a bigger ad on the right, and then make suggested things some of the options. Like the last month or so it's been wanting me to watch super girl or Wonder woman or some dumb shit.

My other personal favorite thing they do is that they load slowly so sometimes I'll go to select an input and the cursor will jump to the wrong place because an ad loaded. Fun!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Anyone ever read the short story "Sales pitch" by Philip K. Dick?

[–] ripcord 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, that sucks. That will definitely drive me elsewhere.

Like a modified Android TV or Apple TV or something

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

What would one recommend as more of a custom build version of these with a way to connect a convenient remote (smartphone or otherwise)? Alternatively is there a way to sort of jailbreak many of them, or does that just become more cumbersome?

[–] cmbabul 4 points 8 months ago

I guess I get to ad more devices to my pfsense Adblock rule

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