Comment on “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen
Snapz@lemmy.world 1 week agoYou ever wonder why many of Rokus remotes don’t come with a mute button? Weird huh… Maybe just an especially expensive button, huh?
Comment on “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen
Snapz@lemmy.world 1 week agoYou ever wonder why many of Rokus remotes don’t come with a mute button? Weird huh… Maybe just an especially expensive button, huh?
laurelraven@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Huh…I must have gotten lucky because all of mine have a mute button…
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.
laurelraven@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
I’ve not run into that either, but YouTube doesn’t show me ads, fortunately
It’s definitely a dark pattern