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It would be a gold mine for them. People always forget the optional agreements and don't want to find where to turn off the faucet of personal data or even know what that means.
I have brought this up while installing TVs for my job and I either get a "wtf, help me fix" or [blank stare] "why should I care?" reactions. Mostly the latter and they are all over the age of 60.
Of all the devices in my house, besides the computer I use all day for work, the Roku gets the most ads blocked by my pi hole.
Even my partner who is chronically infinite scrolling some major platform has less ads blocked
Same. It's not even close. I try to keep the Roku unplugged, but I should just discard.
I don't have any Roku devices luckily, but is there anyway to remove the google, roku, or amazon OS from a smartTV yet? I hope someone can crack these smart tv's and we can install linux on them in the future to eliminate the ads and backdoors.
People be like “don’t connect it to the internet.” I tried that and the TV actively functions worse. Like it forces me to go to the Fire TV Home Screen rather than just returning to whatever input I had it on when it was turned off and it says “some features don’t work when not connected”
Like Amazon enshittified the TV input to force me to connect the TV to the internet. I wouldn’t have bought it if I had known but now I’m stuck with it.
I should be able to use whatever software I want in my own devices. I want a Linux TV so badly.
Get a proper top class panel TV that's dumb and do rasp pi as a firestick, or just run it as 24/7 mini pc connected to the TV that has ad free YouTube, free movies, free everything really if you know what's up.
It cost like 7 euros a year to run it 365 days 24/7
Can you imagine what it must be like to have a stake in roku when you get the news that the company is going to be sold for 22 billion? Do you just immediately nut and throw up at the same time?
If the big old government needs to approve this deal then FOX is in big trouble! /s
looks at stack of ebooks
Let Babylon burn.
Kodi is a great platform if you have something like an odroid or raspberry pi to run it on
Already replaced my Roku with an Apple TV.
Fuck i and just bought one as a quick fix for my old chromecast dieing.
Have a roku tv and only use it to 🏴☠️screen mirror☠️🏴
🌊⚓Yarr mateys⚓🌊!
Now I need to find another easy-to-use streaming stick for my parents.
