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Own a Roku TV or streaming device? You're about to see a lot more ads on your home screen (www.techradar.com)

submitted 9 months ago by AnActOfCreation@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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.

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[-] cmbabul@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

I guess I get to ad more devices to my pfsense Adblock rule

[-] FaceDeer@kbin.social 3 points 9 months ago

I only use my Roku streaming stick for Youtube and Plex. Should be easy enough to replace with a mini-PC or equivalent, if it really becomes bad enough.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 points 8 months ago

As I have found trying to see if I can sideload or jailbreak or otherwise hack the software of my Samsung TV, I have found plenty of ways to totally disable ads on a Roku or Android TV or anything that runs on Android in general (Chromecast, and firestick also IIRC). Too bad I don't have one of those... 😩

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