we live in hell

I don’t even understand the pitch? you have the disc playing, in your hands, your ownership, no buffering, no subscription required. and they’re saying…hey do you want a worse experience?

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What brand? so I know NOT to buy it

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I believe it’s Roku. That purple symbol in the bottom right is on the remote as well.

Very budget so this doesn’t surprise me.

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Fuck Roku. Don’t buy these. They shove ads down your throat constantly, and they proactively, aggressively stop methods of circumvention.

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Wtf I thought roku TV were one of the good ones. I use a Roku thing that you plug in and I haven’t seen this yet.

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6 points

The poster really needs to just turn off the Smart TV experience.

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18 points

The good ones go bad eventually :(

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No. No, they are not one of the good ones.

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The Roku box was one of the good ones… about ten years ago. Though maybe this is just a TV thing. TIL Roku makes actual screens.

In the past few years especially, I’ve seen so many unshakable “good ones” go bad. Some, in the worst possible way.

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I use a Roku as well and never have this happen so I dunno

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49 points

Also beneath the purple asterisk is the words “Roku TV” in grey on the bezel

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Name and shame!

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It’s literally on the screen….

It says Roku TV

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But not exactly obvious. Don’t be a jerk.

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The little asterisk symbol on the screen is leading me to believe it’s a Roku.

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28 points

I have two roku tvs. The day I see this is the day they get disconnected.

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12 points

You can probably use a pi-hole to block those things.

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They put one too many ads on the home screen… then they made them larger…

fuck em. they get nothing now.

blocked their ad servers at the DNS level.

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I have an old Roku Express or something similar and love it. It has an RF remote and a very responsive UI. But it is slowly becoming crappier with the infrequent updates.

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