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Developer ends lucrative screensaver deal with Roku because Fox bought it (arstechnica.com)
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today I fucking learned Roku is now a Murdoch Box.

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[–] 71 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Yeah, it's literal billboards that slowly pass in the cityscape, looking like a flat PNG pasted over it, not matching tone or theme in any way. It's not subtle in the least.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 days ago

    I have this screensaver enabled on my home TVs. One day I went to a restaurant and they had the same screensaver showing on some of it's TVs but they had these giant billboard ads scrolling by covering parts of the screensaver. That's the day I learned that AdGuard DNS blocks the billboards (not just the ad but the entire billboard).

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