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“Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen (arstechnica.com)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Im literally willing to ditch the device and cancel all streaming services because of this. When I turn on my TV I don’t want to be forced to consume ads when I haven’t been provided with anything in return.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I just block all ads at the router level. When looking through the most blocked domains I see a lot from Roku.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Im not very computer savvy and currently only have a tablet and a mac mini from 2008.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

If you're not tech savy, how do you row row row your bot???

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

Gently down the byte stream

[–] yeather 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

How do you do that?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Install ad block if you have a GL.iNet router or pihole

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Get an Nvidia Shield Pro and disconnect your TV from the internet.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (2 children)

When was the last time they even refreshed the hardware? Kinda hard to justify a $200 streaming box that runs Google services on 6 year old mobile hardware.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

About 10 years old actually. It's the TI-83 of streaming boxes at this point: an absolute fucking rip-off. Pretty on-brand for Nvidia though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Yeah it's got about the same specs as a $30 Amazon tablet and you'd now be relying on the largest ad company in the world (Google) instead of Roku, so it does seem like a total ripoff at $200

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Blame the rest of the market for being shit - Shield pro is still the best box on the market for streaming HD video with HD audio.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

My tv is dumb. The roku is the device that connects to the internet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Or spend less money and get a brand new Apple TV 4K

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Does your Apple TV stream Atmos? TrueHD? I don't think so...