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

fakeplastic@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• Alienmonkey@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  News to me, what Roku do?

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  • fakeplastic@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I don’t understand the question. I’m reacting to this story, what the company is doing, without distinction between the branded TVs and peripheral devices.

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    • Alienmonkey@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I get ads suck, and I was pissed and confused when I received one the other day on my Roku.

      I just didn’t know if there was some other reason that they were the worst thing that happened to TV that I missed.

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  • Snapz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    You ever wonder why many of Rokus remotes don’t come with a mute button? Weird huh… Maybe just an especially expensive button, huh?

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    • laurelraven@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Huh…I must have gotten lucky because all of mine have a mute button…

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      • Snapz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        It’s a problem. Also reports of some reviews that do have mute buttons, but the functionality gets selectively disabled - I.e. on the YouTube app, pressing mute will pause an ad, but not mute. The point is to force you to complete watching ads.

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