‘It’s going to be about 100,000 advertisers.‘
  • Chivera@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    12 hours ago

    I bought an external hard drive and downloaded all my sons media on it. No more commercials and no more pushed content

  • notannpc@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    17 hours ago

    Man it must be rough out there for regular people that put up with that kind of bullshit.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
    311·
    22 hours ago

    AI generated ads

    It doesn’t happen a lot that headlines make me vomit a little in my mouth but this one did

  • Cocodapuf@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    14 hours ago

    I’m about to be seeing a lot less Roku…

    They know they’re entirely replaceable right? Like the Amazon fire tv, apple tv, Chromecast… Making their platform shittier really shouldn’t be their top priority if they want to stay in business.

  • paraphrand@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    17 hours ago

    “This company is too cheap to pay someone for a proper advertisement.”

    Using AI like this seems like a counter productive way to build brand awareness.

    • klu9@piefed.socialEnglish
      9·
      21 hours ago

      My TV (dumb but attached to a Roku Express) died last month and since then I’ve been watching on computer + Zen Browser + uBlock Origin, with zero ads.

      And noticing that I don’t see a single TV for sale in nearby shops that is not a (usually Roku) smart TV, i.e. data surveillance capitalist tool.

    • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.mlEnglish
      31·
      20 hours ago

      That’s why I’m never letting your access the internet, Roku.
      You’re the cheapest TV I could find to use as a monitor
      Just stay in your line, or else
      Also I can’t root Roku 12 ?
      What in the absolute bullshit is that ?
      Not root on my own fucking TV ?
      Someone needs to 9/11 that entire company !!

  • IphtashuFitz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    16 hours ago

    I still use a Roku that was gifted to me, but only thanks to also having a pihole. The amount of logging & ads it blocks on the Roku is insane. If that ever stopped working I would ditch the Roku in a heartbeat.

    • Itsamelemmy@lemmy.zipEnglish
      5·
      21 hours ago

      Kinda. I recently got a shield pro to replace my roku. Customization, and no ads are nice, but for what it cost, what a fucking piece of shit. Hard freezee that require unplugging is the main issue, but it also doesn’t respond to remote presses frequently on start up. Takes 30+ seconds sometimes before the remote works.

      For more than double the cost it shoukd blow the roku ultra away in every sense. And I shouldn’t have to adb hack it to install a custom launcher.

      • whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        19 hours ago

        I did the same replaced a Roku device with a shield when Roku started doing startup ads. Seems to work fine then won’t respond to remote and needs a reboot, some weird stuff with the VPN too. Should have probably just got a mini form PC instead.

      • comador @lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        18 hours ago

        Thank you for this. I was setting up to buy an nvidia shield to replace my roku ultras.

        FWIW, I have so far tried:

        • Onn Google TV 4K: Returned it, freezes constantly.

        • Jailbroken AMZ fire stick w/ LineageOS. Buffering issues and wireless issues in general. I still use it, but not my favorite.

        So for now it seems my next purchase will be a TiVo Stream 4k android device or a jailbroken fire tv cube and if that fails, I may just have to DIY an android Pi system lol.

      • wshrader@lemmy.todayEnglish
        1·
        19 hours ago

        The ONN devices from Walmart work near-flawless, even the $14 stick. I would recommend starting there.