Roku wants you to see a lot more AI-generated ads
Roku wants you to see a lot more AI-generated ads
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Roku wants you to see a lot more AI-generated ads
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You're Not Buying a TV; You're Buying a Roku
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My TV (dumb but attached to a Roku Express) died last month and since then I've been watching on computer + Zen Browser + uBlock Origin, with zero ads.
And noticing that I don't see a single TV for sale in nearby shops that is not a (usually Roku) smart TV, i.e. data surveillance capitalist tool.
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Instead of looking for a tv, look for a commercial display. They’re basically a computer monitor the size of a TV. Samsung makes a line that we use at work, and the cost is similar to a mid-range TV. They can function completely without internet.
Something like these: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/buy/commercial-displays/ci/35567/N/3538895735
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Why not librewolf, Firefox has native vertical tabs since Firefox 136
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The funny thing is you can just use an external box and never connect your tv to the internet at all. Let it collect all the data it wants. It’s not like it can tell anybody.
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I'm fearing when my tv finally dies. It's a 15 year old 75", and I know i won't have the money for a new one when the time comes. Especially not enough to shop around for a dumb tv the same size.
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I want Roku to eat shit.
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my roku TV can't talk to the internet anymore because it was foolish enough to show me a banner ad while I was gaming
its a dumb TV now 🥰💕
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Odroid with Lineage OS instead of Roku
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Is there a good way to set it up with a remote?
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I've seen a fancy remote with a keyboard on the back but didn't try it myself.
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Roku is so far away from their golden era, why are we still talking about them?
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Any Android TV OS > Roku. Dumb TV > Roku. Outside > Roku.
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Toshiba 32A33 > roku
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“This company is too cheap to pay someone for a proper advertisement.”
Using AI like this seems like a counter productive way to build brand awareness.
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I don't want to see Roku anymore.
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So long as their ads keep getting blocked my my pi-hole I won't notice.
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The ad is coming from INSIDE the TV
😱
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I'm about to be seeing a lot less Roku...
They know they're entirely replaceable right? Like the Amazon fire tv, apple tv, Chromecast... Making their platform shittier really shouldn't be their top priority if they want to stay in business.
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I've always said I want to see more commercials made by people who have no idea what they're doing and with near zero oversight for quality or taste.
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What a coincidence; I've been seeing no roku laetely
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Roku can suck it.
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I think I will start buying mini PCs with Linux starting next year!!! :-)
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It's how I have been running it for the last two years now. Coupled with Jellyfin, it is such a better experience. My mother just got a new TV - I think I will set up something similar for her.
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I still use a Roku that was gifted to me, but only thanks to also having a pihole. The amount of logging & ads it blocks on the Roku is insane. If that ever stopped working I would ditch the Roku in a heartbeat.
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That sucks. People already have to pay to get rid of ads on streaming services last I remember. I wish companies would stop aggressively showing ads everywhere.
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I pay extra for paramount+ ad free version and they still show me periodic ads. Its infuriating. And they are much louder than the show content, as a cherry on top. What an awful service.
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Could be entertaining if somebody accidentally flips the "allow slop machine to make up fake products" switch from off to on.
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I'll be honest... advertising is the one industry I wouldn't be sad to see get completely cannibalized by AI.
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Truth. Before there was at least some sort of pressure on the ad industry to incentivize our attention. They had to make it interesting or funny.
Now, it’s a far less consensual arrangement. “I will hold your Skinner box hostage until you listen to me!”
UBo, pinchflat, SponsorBlock, jellyfin, WireGuard, Apple shortcuts for auto connect and activation when I get in my car, and now I get my stories while I’m driving and those obnoxious vultures can fuck right off.
If Adblock blocking goes away, so will I. This is already more work than I feel like putting into it and the quality of online content has really gone downhill. The enshittification is so extreme now that it’s just not worth paying for things anymore.
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I want Roku to fuck all the way off with that plan.
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On the plus side, AI will make the obnoxious ad goblin career track less profitable now. So, good news.
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I bought an external hard drive and downloaded all my sons media on it. No more commercials and no more pushed content
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Commercials over the basic channels on the basic TV is its own curse but It's difficult for me to understand why would someone want to watch YouTube through their smart television since the service pumps lots of adds in those videos as well - after years of me watching everything at home via my computer screens that are guarded by the amazing solution of AdBlock ♥️
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This just made me realise… with AI-generated videos, ads could be tailor-made for you. Could even feature you on it.
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Man it must be rough out there for regular people that put up with that kind of bullshit.