Comment on I got this popup ad on my TV **while watching a DVD**

tdawg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Rognaut@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Fuck Roku. Don’t buy these. They shove ads down your throat constantly, and they proactively, aggressively stop methods of circumvention.

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  • idunnololz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Wtf I thought roku TV were one of the good ones

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    • intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The good ones go bad eventually :(

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    • aeronmelon@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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      • apprehensively_human@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        My Sharp TV runs Roku software. Suffice it to say I do not have it web connected and use an android box instead

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    • Stupidmanager@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The poster really needs to just turn off the Smart TV experience.

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    • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      No. No, they are not one of the good ones.

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    • IgnisAvem@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I use a Roku as well and never have this happen so I dunno

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• AZERTY@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The little asterisk symbol on the screen is leading me to believe it’s a Roku.

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  • themeatbridge@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I have two roku tvs. The day I see this is the day they get disconnected.

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    • cybervseas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You can probably use a pi-hole to block those things.

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      • linkinkampf19@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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      • frokie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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      • RandomPancake@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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      • scott@lem.free.as ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Pi-hole FTW.

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      • tyrant@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Or a private DNS service that allows filtering like nextdns

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    • yggstyle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • quo@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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      • frokie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I guarantee you someone paid Roku to do this

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    • dan1101@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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• TubeTalkerX@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Name and shame!

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  • Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s literally on the screen….

    It says Roku TV

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    • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      But not exactly obvious. Don’t be a jerk.

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