The little asterisk symbol on the screen is leading me to believe it’s a Roku.
Comment on I got this popup ad on my TV **while watching a DVD**
tdawg@lemmy.world 11 months ago
What brand? so I know NOT to buy it
AZERTY@feddit.nl 11 months ago
themeatbridge@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I have two roku tvs. The day I see this is the day they get disconnected.
cybervseas@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You can probably use a pi-hole to block those things.
linkinkampf19@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The amount of Roku stuff my PiHole blocks is asinine. I just recently added a blocklist for smart TVs and it ballooned the query counts like mad.
+1 for PiHole. Worth the ~$40 for the Pi Zero W and accessories alone.
frokie@lemmy.world 11 months ago
No, you can’t. I’m running pihole and have a TCL Roku tv connected via HDMI to an Apple TV, and the ROKU APP RECOGNIZES CONTENT FROM IT and makes the suggestion, overlaying it OVER THE HDMI STREAM.
It’s the worst
RandomPancake@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You can, but don’t forget to also block other outbound DNS connections in your firewall. Lots of “smart” devices are hard coded to use 8.8.8.8 regardless of what DHCP says. Pihole won’t stop those, so you have to block it at the firewall.
scott@lem.free.as 11 months ago
Pi-hole FTW.
tyrant@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Or a private DNS service that allows filtering like nextdns
yggstyle@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They put one too many ads on the home screen… then they made them larger…
fuck em. they get nothing now.
blocked their ad servers at the DNS level.
quo@feddit.uk 11 months ago
[deleted]frokie@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I guarantee you someone paid Roku to do this
dan1101@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I have an old Roku Express or something similar and love it. It has an RF remote and a very responsive UI. But it is slowly becoming crappier with the infrequent updates.
TubeTalkerX@kbin.social 11 months ago
Name and shame!
Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s literally on the screen….
It says Roku TV
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 11 months ago
But not exactly obvious. Don’t be a jerk.
Rognaut@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I believe it’s Roku. That purple symbol in the bottom right is on the remote as well.
Very budget so this doesn’t surprise me.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Fuck Roku. Don’t buy these. They shove ads down your throat constantly, and they proactively, aggressively stop methods of circumvention.
idunnololz@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Wtf I thought roku TV were one of the good ones
intensely_human@lemm.ee 11 months ago
The good ones go bad eventually :(
aeronmelon@lemm.ee 11 months ago
The Roku box was one of the good ones… about ten years ago. Though maybe this is just a TV thing. TIL Roku makes actual screens.
In the past few years especially, I’ve seen so many unshakable “good ones” go bad. Some, in the worst possible way.
apprehensively_human@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
My Sharp TV runs Roku software. Suffice it to say I do not have it web connected and use an android box instead
Stupidmanager@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The poster really needs to just turn off the Smart TV experience.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
No. No, they are not one of the good ones.
IgnisAvem@reddthat.com 11 months ago
I use a Roku as well and never have this happen so I dunno