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[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 45 points 1 day ago (3 children)

For years I was a big fan of Roku. It represented a better value alternative from the big corporations pushing their own agenda like Google, Apple, Samsung, and Amazon. They made products that were intuitive and user oriented and carved out a very nice and stable market share for themselves because of it. Now they're just leveraging their hardware relationships to transform the software into something terrible.

I used to look for tvs with Roku built in. Now I've disabled Roku features from my smart TVS and use a separate streaming device.

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[–] nul9o9@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Roku had the best smart tv ui. I was seriously bummed when the ads started rolling in a few years ago.

I want an open source streaming client, but from what I hear DRM gets in the way of that.

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[–] potentiallynotfelix@lemmy.fish 32 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Don't connect your Roku to the internet.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

Or better yet, use a Pi-Hole or something similar to block the relevant adservers at the DNS level.

[–] Hellmo_Luciferrari@lemm.ee 22 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I wouldn't say this is "better"

I do run a pihole, but I still will never connect my roku to the internet. It is much better to have a media PC or other streaming device I have control of fully connected.

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Don’t connect your Roku to the internet.

I thought that Roku was some kind of streaming service to a device. Doesn't that need to be Internet-connected to function?

kagis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roku

Ah. Apparently that's what they originally did, but they've also subsequently come out with smart TVs, which I assume can operate without an Internet connection.

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[–] drascus@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I have a vero-V but honestly the apps are lack luster. Its amazing if you have your own library of content. I saw my first homescreen add on roku yesterday. I am pissed.

[–] spongebue@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Looking around Roku's site, I found this email address: AdsPR@roku.com

I'm planning on giving them a brief but firm "oh hell no" letter. I wonder how many others will do the same 🤔

I emailed them to let them know I cancelled Disney+ and cited this specific ad and advertisement campaign through Roku as to why I cancelled the service.

Let’s make the companies who advertise this way feel pain.

[–] mystik@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They just did this to me. How can I tell them they failed this test?

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If you force Ads then I will replace your equipment. The only reason I use Roku is to avoid the Ads built into "smart TVs"

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