I feel the same way about smart TVs, but I'm starting to have my doubts about the Roku. A few months ago I was trying out an open source DLNA media player. I te

I feel the same way about smart TVs, but I'm starting to have my doubts about the Roku. A few months ago I was trying out an open source DLNA media player. I tested it playing a single WAV file from my server using the Roku Media Player. A day or two later, we turned on the TV, switched to the Roku, and were greeted with an advertisement for a concert video by the exact band I had listened to. Now, I'm pretty sure the ad was not based on our the past viewing habits of our household - my wife does 99.9% of the Roku streaming, and her music preferences are completely different than mine. Now, I know this is just a single anecdote, and that it could very well have been a coincidence, and that in the grand scheme of thing this is one of the more innocuous uses of tracking, but it was still a somewhat though-provoking experience.