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Own a Roku TV or streaming device? You're about to see a lot more ads on your home screen (www.techradar.com)
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Ugh. Roku was one of the platforms with fewer ads.

  • Roku will be adding more ads to the home screens of its devices and TVs in the near future.
  • The ads will be interactive and 'shoppable' and will cover a range of industries, including restaurants and cars.
  • Roku already has a significant amount of ads on its home screen, and it is unclear if users will be able to change their preferences for the new ads.
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[–] 16 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Anyway to roll back firmware on some of these TVs?

Mine was never connected, except once a friend came over and connected it and it updated and now it requires a connection to rename inputs...

It's never been connected since that day either.

Hate this kind of crap.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Why did they ever connect it? just wanted to watch the world burn?

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    They didn't understand how the TV and Shield worked and had wanted to watch some sports thing on their ESPN account.

    I guess they thought i was mistaken when I told them they only needed the shield remote for everything and the shield could do it all.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I don't think so, I searched around but didn't see anything noteworthy. Maybe a hacker will get bored one day and jailbreak them, but seems like there's no hope as of right now.

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