I will never buy any of their devices. I prefer to self host my own ad free streaming using open source software.

Man it must be rough out there for regular people that put up with that kind of bullshit.

AI generated ads

It doesn't happen a lot that headlines make me vomit a little in my mouth but this one did

You're Not Buying a TV; You're Buying a Roku

I want Roku to eat shit.

my roku TV can't talk to the internet anymore because it was foolish enough to show me a banner ad while I was gaming

its a dumb TV now 🥰💕

Any Android TV OS > Roku. Dumb TV > Roku. Outside > Roku.

Roku is so far away from their golden era, why are we still talking about them?

I don't want to see Roku anymore.

“This company is too cheap to pay someone for a proper advertisement.”

Using AI like this seems like a counter productive way to build brand awareness.

So long as their ads keep getting blocked my my pi-hole I won't notice.

Roku can suck it.

What a coincidence; I've been seeing no roku laetely

I've always said I want to see more commercials made by people who have no idea what they're doing and with near zero oversight for quality or taste.

Could be entertaining if somebody accidentally flips the "allow slop machine to make up fake products" switch from off to on.

I still use a Roku that was gifted to me, but only thanks to also having a pihole. The amount of logging & ads it blocks on the Roku is insane. If that ever stopped working I would ditch the Roku in a heartbeat.

That sucks. People already have to pay to get rid of ads on streaming services last I remember. I wish companies would stop aggressively showing ads everywhere.

I'm about to be seeing a lot less Roku...

They know they're entirely replaceable right? Like the Amazon fire tv, apple tv, Chromecast... Making their platform shittier really shouldn't be their top priority if they want to stay in business.

Roku, was cool.

I'll be honest... advertising is the one industry I wouldn't be sad to see get completely cannibalized by AI.

On the plus side, AI will make the obnoxious ad goblin career track less profitable now. So, good news.

I bought an external hard drive and downloaded all my sons media on it. No more commercials and no more pushed content

I want Roku to fuck all the way off with that plan.

Commercials over the basic channels on the basic TV is its own curse but It's difficult for me to understand why would someone want to watch YouTube through their smart television since the service pumps lots of adds in those videos as well - after years of me watching everything at home via my computer screens that are guarded by the amazing solution of AdBlock ♥️

This just made me realise… with AI-generated videos, ads could be tailor-made for you. Could even feature you on it.