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Presumably they’d do it with some kind of idle timeout. No inputs for X number of minutes and you get an ad.
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.
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.
Probably rather X number of seconds, like 30, but yeah