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Fox Is Buying Roku in $22 Billion Deal (variety.com)
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[–] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Both our TVs are Rokus, internet connected and I've been too lazy to configure the firewall. Only ads I see are on the home menu screen, and those are slightly annoying but unobtrusive.

Wife's TV in the bedroom is only used for YT. (I think, that's her thing.) Mine's a second monitor for my PC to watched pirated content.

Where and how are people seeing ads?

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 child)

    They're on the home screen in a banner on the right when you select an app, as sections on the left, in a banner on the bottom left, a banner over the movie in their Roku Channel app and so on.

    You may be in a country where they are not serving many ads. They also use ACR on TV models which have it that sends fingerprints of what you watch to a server for personalised ads.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Also Roku live tv has commercial breaks.

    On a related note, the Samsung live tv app now runs javascript during its commercial breaks. It locks\disables about ten buttons on your remote so you are forced to wait or "interact" with the commercial.

    I expect as Roku grows they'll soon pick up that feature.

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