Ugh. Roku was one of the platforms with fewer ads.

  • Roku will be adding more ads to the home screens of its devices and TVs in the near future.
  • The ads will be interactive and ‘shoppable’ and will cover a range of industries, including restaurants and cars.
  • Roku already has a significant amount of ads on its home screen, and it is unclear if users will be able to change their preferences for the new ads.
  • MiDaBa@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    Why won’t anyone make a privacy focused premium streaming box with no ads? I’d pay so much for this thing that will never exist.

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      10 months ago

      Apple TV is a premium streaming box without ads. The privacy aspect is less clear, but probably better than Samsung, Google and Roku that are all harvesting data.

      An open source solution would be better.

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        10 months ago

        The privacy aspect is less clear, but probably better

        I love how dividing by an unknown somehow makes a bigger number for you. The bias is leaking.

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          10 months ago

          Apple chargers more and isn’t openly selling data (Samsung) or openly selling ads (Google). The commercial activity provides some insight here, that suggests Apple is better for privacy.

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      10 months ago

      IMHO, for a quick out-of-the-box solution, the AppleTV is still the better streaming box.

      Performant, tight software experience, large software catalog, proactively asks about blocking tracking data, and no ads all over the place.

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          10 months ago

          You can turn that off. If you don’t want the TV app to show new TV+ shows when it’s highlighted in the dock, you can set it to display recently watched content. And recently watched content will be app agnostic.

          The feature is a little buried, but it’s a nice experience upgrade that is worth switching over to.

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        10 months ago

        I don’t use major streaming services. I just want something that runs NewPipe and Jellyfin. Lol

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      10 months ago

      Until then, a Raspberry Pi or SFF PC will do the job just fine. They even work with remotes if you get an IR receiver for them.

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        10 months ago

        Torrent? PeerTube?

        For paid options I see no sense in decentralization. But a standard protocol for rental tied with some protocol for payments (like GNU Taler) to rent movies from any source with one tap and no install would be cool.