Own a Roku TV or streaming device? You're about to see a lot more ads on your home screen - eviltoast

Ugh. Roku was one of the platforms with fewer ads.

  • Roku will be adding more ads to the home screens of its devices and TVs in the near future.
  • The ads will be interactive and ‘shoppable’ and will cover a range of industries, including restaurants and cars.
  • Roku already has a significant amount of ads on its home screen, and it is unclear if users will be able to change their preferences for the new ads.
    • Sendbeer@lemm.ee
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      10 months ago

      Pihole helps. If you have androidtv you can setup a custom launcher and avoid it on your interface.

      • Ricky Rigatoni@lemm.ee
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        10 months ago

        I will have to see about getting pihole on truenas core. It has a preconfigured adguard thingy but I didn’tblike it.

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      10 months ago

      Might not be the exact solution you’re looking for, but I run my “smart TV” off a cheap ass laptop. The TV itselfbhas never been connected to the internet.

      • Ricky Rigatoni@lemm.ee
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        10 months ago

        Hmm. Since all I use my tv for is local plex server and hdmi I could just disable its internet access in the router.

        e: i did it

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          10 months ago

          Absolutely! There is no reason for the TV itself to have access, I’m actually using this TV as kind of an experiment, I let my last 2 roku TVs access the internet, and after 2-3 years they both went tits up. I’ve heard rumors that they can pretty much be broken on schedule with “updates” and shit. No idea if that is true, But if this TV lasts me a good long while, I will assume it is lol. So far 1 year on this one lol.

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          10 months ago

          I sure as fuck hope not lol. I don’t think my TV has that capability, even if it wanted to. If I don’t give it access to my shit, its just a big-ass monitor lol.