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“Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 year ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip [M] to c/technology@lemmy.zip

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Users are unimpressed, eager to toss devices if test sticks.

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[+] fakeplastic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 child)

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[–] Alienmonkey@lemm.ee 1 point 1 year ago* (2 children)

News to me, what Roku do?

I mean the sticks and boxes, not the TV's themselves, I get those suck.

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[+] fakeplastic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 child)

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[–] Alienmonkey@lemm.ee 1 point 1 year ago

I get ads suck, and I was pissed and confused when I received one the other day on my Roku.

I just didn't know if there was some other reason that they were the worst thing that happened to TV that I missed.

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[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

You ever wonder why many of Rokus remotes don't come with a mute button? Weird huh... Maybe just an especially expensive button, huh?

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[–] laurelraven@lemmy.zip 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

Huh...I must have gotten lucky because all of mine have a mute button...

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[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

It's a problem. Also reports of some reviews that do have mute buttons, but the functionality gets selectively disabled - I.e. on the YouTube app, pressing mute will pause an ad, but not mute. The point is to force you to complete watching ads.

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[–] laurelraven@lemmy.zip 1 point 1 year ago

I've not run into that either, but YouTube doesn't show me ads, fortunately

It's definitely a dark pattern

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