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[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)

A lot of games no longer have the traditional pause. Pause goes to the menu. Sometimes the settings menu, sometimes the character gear menu or similar. Throwing an ad over menu items you need to access would piss me off even more than ads already do.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Presumably they’d do it with some kind of idle timeout. No inputs for X number of minutes and you get an ad.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

And if it's anything like their streaming boxes, pressing a button on the controller will select the ad instead of resuming your game. Happens too frequently that I'll pause a show to eat or something, screensaver comes on and when I press a button on the remote it launches the roku channel instead of resuming the show I paused.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Classic enshittification: extract values from both sides.

Consumers get a worse experience seeing unwanted ads
Advertisers pay for clicks that are erroneous
Roku's numbers go up

It's a shame there's no easy way to flash custom OSes on smart TVs, in general. Even just nuking the whole thing to be a dumb display would be amazing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Probably rather X number of seconds, like 30, but yeah