Comment on “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen

Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What? This is reported to be happening on both sticks and tv versions of the rolu app.

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  • Empricorn@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s capitalism… When every CEO, Board Member, and shareholder wants a yacht, it’s literally never enough. They even created a term to describe this inevitable deterioration of every company’s product: enshittification.

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    • Snapz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s not that they all want yachts, they make enough to each buy multiple yachts. It’s just that nothing is ever enough. They don’t know what success is, so they chase the undefined feeling until they die unfulfilled. Fucking living dead and a cancer on collective humanity

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      • laurelraven@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        They want nesting yachts.

        And once they have a nesting yacht, they want an even bigger yacht to nest that one in.

        It’s yachts all the way up.

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    • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Enshittification was coined for online services, which includes roku, but doesn’t apply to all products.

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      • laurelraven@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Whether it was coined for all products or not, it’s definitely applying to all products

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      • Snapz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Oh course it does, what are you talking about? It applies to any product or service that can have its quality gradually and intentionally reduced in service of having its profit margin increase.

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      • 4am@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Enshittification was coined for online services, which includes roku, but doesn’t apply to all products.

        American businessmen: “Hold my beer and watch this”

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  • Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    hence, punishing those who didnt get their own streaming box (that isnt roku based), or has a tv that has roku built into it.

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    • hyperhopper@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not what your original comment said. And completely disingenuous too, since the Roku streaming box is one of the most popular ones

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    • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Owners of smart TVs and streaming sticks running Roku OS

      The article clearly states

      Owners of smart TVs and streaming sticks running Roku OS

      It IS affecting tvs with roku built in.

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      • Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        hence its PUNISHING those who bought tvs that have it BUILT IN

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