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“Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen (arstechnica.com)
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[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 4 points 1 day ago

The sad thing is Roku's UI was pretty dang good before they added a row of ads at the top, a half screen ad on the left and replaced the background with an ad every 2 weeks, waiting a full minute for it to load the latest nonsense the highest bidder paid them to shove in my face. The ads absolutely ruin a good platform.