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

• 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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  • 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

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