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.
Comment on I got this popup ad on my TV **while watching a DVD**
themeatbridge@lemmy.world 11 months agoI have two roku tvs. The day I see this is the day they get disconnected.
yggstyle@lemmy.world 11 months ago
quo@feddit.uk 11 months ago
[deleted]frokie@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I guarantee you someone paid Roku to do this
quo@feddit.uk 11 months ago
[deleted]frokie@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Those channels precisely. They get ad revenue when you watch it on their channels. If they can get Roku to bring them traffic, Roku would charge for that. No engineering effort goes unpaid.
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.
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.
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That’s because they retry failed connections until they can phone home again. They aren’t normally making tens of thousands of requests.
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It can scream into the void for as long as it wants.
LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I fucking hate my Roku Tv. One of my roku TV became unusable after software update. Can’t be rolled back. I’m just stuck with a perfectly fine screen and shit software. And yes even connecting another device via HDMI is an issue because the TV restarts randomly for “updates” while watching external sources.
Albbi@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Hrm, that’s a pretty good argument for buying a tv and leaving the built in smart features without internet access. Sorry about your issues.
I’d there no way to factory reset it?
AtariDump@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Shoutout to the PiHole team. Love you guys and the work you do.
0110010001100010@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Which smart TV blocklist are you using? Should probably add that into my pihole.
linkinkampf19@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Posted under Phar’s comment, but here’s the direct link
raw.githubusercontent.com/Perflyst/…/SmartTV.txt
cmbabul@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I really need to get around that on my pfsense
phar@lemmy.world 11 months ago
What block list is that?
linkinkampf19@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Pretty sure it’s the smart TV blocklist from Wally3k / Firebog. I’ll confirm and update later if I find out otherwise.
raw.githubusercontent.com/Perflyst/…/SmartTV.txt
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
Krauerking@lemy.lol 11 months ago
You can actually turn that off in the Roku settings. I did when I saw it demanding I watch my content from my PC on their shitty ad bloated sponsors.
I am now realizing it might be more work than it’s worth for Roku even though I used to prefer their systems being a bit more stable.
cybervseas@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Ew that’s approaching dystopian levels of grossness. My tv should not be watching along with me.
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.
AtariDump@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Or redirect them to the PiHole.
And don’t forget to block/redirect secure DNS on port 853.
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