At this point who would ever trust Roku products.
this post was submitted on 04 Apr 2024
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Is this why they made people waive their right to sue them?
Yeah... Fuck Roku.
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This is gross. I cut my cable because of ads. Have about 3 types of adblockers on my computer to stop them. This hyper marketing is why so many have turned away from traditional entertainment to begin with.
I am more than the ability to spend money and it’s goddamn time everyone say this and boycott companies that do shady garbage like this
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Imagine scrolling through the pornhub video that you spent half an hour searching for and then Bam! "Clean those pesky cum filled tities with Downy! Now with strawberry flavor, Downy is the only official pornhub gangbang body odor control soap and lubricant. Get your official pornhub bottle filled at the Costco sample counter today!"
Those kinds of brands would never want to associate their ads with adult content. So instead what you'll get is ads from scammers or shady business, like "make $600 a day from home", or "horny MILF in your area", or "penile enlargement cream ".
Probably not. I would expect those to come up at 7pm when the kids are back from school watching number blocks....Daddy what is a Milf? Is mommy a milf? Can I get penile enlargement. Fun times ahead!
Or my personal favourite
THIS GAME WILL MAKE YOU CUM IN 15 NANOSECONDS
Daddy, 🥺, I did the leg thing like the lady but I didn't cum! Can you buy me some cum? Is it like the one our teacher makes in school?
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Enshitification gold rush continues. It's like now there is a word for it, all these companies are exploring how they can do it.
For consumers, "enshitification" is a reminder of how things get worse. For companies, apparently it's a delightfully new lower bar to aspire to. This is some Darkest Timeline kinda BS
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Looks like I'm about to go buy another used computer to setup my streaming services using Kody.
What's Kody? I've been thinking of getting a pc and setting up jellyfin on it and connect that to my tv, but I've never heard of Kody before
It's a Linux app but runs on almost all platforms. I have it on my phone and my windows PC as well as my dial boot Linux on the same PC. It's looks like the xbox interface (I don't have one so I would know). You can get all sorts of things on it like a video library, automatic episode downloads, illegal downloads, porn, etc, Netflix.
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Are there major limitations of using a computer monitor as a TV if I plug another device into it (eg Apple TV) apart from the screen size?
I feel this would be a good way to go for small cheap TVs at least.
Broadcast TV decoding would be the major limit, but I don't watch that anyway. Monitors also have fewer HDMI ports than TVs.
But not all smart TVs are awful like Roku. My LG OLED is fine for example.
Can you just not connect your Smart TV to the internet at all to bypass this? I never connect my Smart TVs to the internet, just my Apple TV since it’s my streamer platform. Seems like this would hamstring their ability to push ads.
If too many people do this, you bet "smart" TV peddlers will start bundling cellular modems on their devices, so they can connect directly to their servers without relying on your WiFi, just like car companies do. Blocking this would require enclosing the TV in a Faraday cage.
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If they can do that, then nobody can say anything about devices doing the reverse.
Taking over Roku through hdmi ? that's bold
It took me more time than I want to admit to understand what you meant by your comment. But yes I agree
so glad i never bought into roku
and i never fucking will
good riddance.
A TV is a device that shows you what you want. This is no TV.