I remember when Roku was the big cost saving alternative to TV. I remember when it was the all in one streaming aggregator.
Meh, I don't even watch TV anyway
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Glad I never set up the smart features on my roku TV.
HTPC+PiHole 👍👍
Also if you're cool 🏴☠️
Roku is terrible anyways. They can't even accurately reproduce the colors.
This is one of the many reasons why you should be your own streaming service. 🏴☠️
We had one on our TV the other day. This will absolutely be our last Roku.
In the meantime I immediately installed PiHole, to block all their ads.
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Roku is the worst thing to happen to TVs since motion smoothing.
News to me, what Roku do?
I mean the sticks and boxes, not the TV's themselves, I get those suck.
I don't understand the question. I'm reacting to this story, what the company is doing, without distinction between the branded TVs and peripheral devices.
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NVidia Shield 2 when?
I was expecting them to release one with the Switch 2 but haven't heard anything yet unfortunately.
Not to say that the Shield 1 isn't great. It's still the best streaming device to this date! It's awesome!
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Basically punishment for people who either don't get their own streaming box/avoid tvs with roku built in.
What? This is reported to be happening on both sticks and tv versions of the rolu app.
It's capitalism... When every CEO, Board Member, and shareholder wants a yacht, it's literally never enough. They even created a term to describe this inevitable deterioration of every company's product: enshittification.
Enshittification was coined for online services, which includes roku, but doesn't apply to all products.
Enshittification, also known as crapification and platform decay, is the term used to describe the pattern in which online products and services decline in quality over time. Initially, vendors create high-quality offerings to attract users, then they degrade those offerings to better serve business customers, and finally degrade their services to users and business customers to maximize profits for shareholders.
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hence, punishing those who didnt get their own streaming box (that isnt roku based), or has a tv that has roku built into it.
Owners of smart TVs and streaming sticks running Roku OS
The article clearly states
Owners of smart TVs and streaming sticks running Roku OS
It IS affecting tvs with roku built in.
hence its PUNISHING those who bought tvs that have it BUILT IN
Then you are writing it to mean the opposite of what you intended.
Is this what you meant?
hence, punishing those who didnt get their own streaming box (that isnt roku based), AND those who have a tv that has roku built into it.
hence why i went to clarify it on the second comment. I can agree that on the first attempt, it can be read off, but the second attempt clearly shows that roku tvs are affected regardless of how you read it
Not what your original comment said. And completely disingenuous too, since the Roku streaming box is one of the most popular ones
I never plugged mine into the Internet. I just plugged in an Apple TV, and I’m good to go. No ads, no sweat, no problem.
New devices don't allow that
I got mine three weeks ago from Amazon. How much more new can it get?
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I will absolutely be getting rid of mine if I experience this.
I only have my roku tv because I got it dirt cheap ages ago, I don't use it all that often and no good enough reason to replace it, I'm already considering replacing it with a dumb tv and just hooking up my laptop to it. If I ever experience this, it will make the cost of a new dumb tv 1000% worth it.
You can reset your Roku tv and simply not connect it to the internet. It will still work as a dumb tv.
I'll try that, thank you.
Yup!! 100%
Advertisements suck and no regular person would ever advocate for seeing more of them. Enshittification is also out of control and ad-free services you pay a subscription for are more and more sneaking in ads where they can. This combination of facts is why I am a deranged data hoarder with self-hosted solutions wherever possible.
I just really really hate ads. If I had a Roku and this change rolled out to me I'd probably flip.
I think I wouldn’t hate ads so much if they weren’t constantly bombarding us.
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