darkpanda comments on [a look in the future] Roku’s New HDMI Tech Could Show Ads When You Pause Your Game

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[–] darkpanda@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

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[–] Itsamelemmy@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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.

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[–] blindsight@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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.

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[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

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

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