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Roku will ban you from installing custom apps if your device has ever installed an app that’s been removed for TOS violations. My account was permanently blocke
by schoolornot 5y ago
Roku will ban you from installing custom apps if your device has ever installed an app that’s been removed for TOS violations. My account was permanently blocked from side loading because I had downloaded & tried a M3U player.
The demise of this company is long overdue.
- lvass 5y agoWhich makes "your device" a misnomer here. Roku clearly still owns it.
- pixelatedindex 5y agoGenerally if you pay for a device then it really should be “your device”. Nobody goes around saying the owner of an iPhone is Apple (colloquially).
- freedomben 5y agoThat may be a reflection of your circle. I say that all the time, and many of the people I talk to about it agree completely :-)
- grishka 5y ago> Nobody goes around saying the owner of an iPhone is Apple (colloquially). I do.
- freedomben 5y agoThanks for sharing. I'm not a regular Roku user but I do have one and I was thinking about hacking on it. Knowing that Roku can ban you from installing custom apps on the device I purchased is enough to make me spend my time elsewhere. I'm really glad that companies like pine64, frame.work, and purism, etc are starting to emerge. The Roku, Apple, John Deere etc user-hostile approach of "you don't own it, we do. You're renting it from us and we will tell you what is permitted" needs to be defeated.