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“Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 23 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I wouldn't say this is "better"

I do run a pihole, but I still will never connect my roku to the internet. It is much better to have a media PC or other streaming device I have control of fully connected.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    True, but most people are buying off-the-shelf stuff and they don't have their own localized piracy-enabled libraries with a Jellyfin server.

    Further, I'm pretty sure you've got to connect your Roku at least once to install player apps like Jellyfin. But maybe you don't, I'm not at all familiar with if you can sideload on a Roku.

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