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Roku’s Ultimatum: Surrender Jury Trial Rights or Lose Access to Your TVs (programming.dev)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Did your Roku TV decide to strong arm you into giving up your rights or lose your FULLY FUNCTIONING WORKING TV? Because mine did.

It doesn't matter if you only use it as a dumb panel for an Apple TV, Fire stick, or just to play your gaming console. You either agree or get bent.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yes, you absolutely can. Or you can use pihole to block ads/updates. Or you can use a raspberry pi with kodi. Or a streaming stick. Or you can use it normally.

Just make sure you buy from a store with a return policy that let's you test the TV for your use case. Which in the EU is any online retailer, for 14 days.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

There are tvs that wait a month before giving you a big manually dismissed popup about not being connected to the internet.