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I continue to love my Roku and some of the oddball niche channels. But their ad serving is really immature. From seeing the same ad 3 times in a row to Overt

I continue to love my Roku and some of the oddball niche channels. But their ad serving is really immature. From seeing the same ad 3 times in a row to Overt aggressive insertions to sometimes freezing on an external ad feed to the rampant ad scams, it becomes frustrating to watch anything but The no-ad subscription channels which may not have that culty flic. I don't mind supporting folks with ad viewing, but I also expect some variety, freq capping, and a bit of targeting. On the plus side, when all those Spanish ads come on, I can recognize almost half the words now.

jklinger410 7y ago
Interesting that you bring this up because they made a great business decision to serve their own ads on the platform and they actually take a cut of all the ad serving. I don't think they would be as successful without that strategy. But clearly that comes with the caveat that they have to design and maintain their own ad delivery mechanisms, which is very difficult.
asix66 7y ago
I also like my Roku. Recently upgraded to an Ultra so I could take advantage of a free year of AppleTV+. WRT advertising, I run a Pi-Hole and it does a great job blocking such things.