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> First off I despise both Apple and that other evil empire (house of mouse) I want nothing to do with either of them. It’s funny that the poster despises Appl
by scarface74 4y ago
> First off I despise both Apple and that other evil empire (house of mouse) I want nothing to do with either of them.
It’s funny that the poster despises Apple. But is okay with a company where the CEO explicitly said that they want to make money not via hardware sells, but via selling user’s television watching behavior.
Everything about the Roku is a janky experience. From the ad that takes up the Home Screen to the hard coded buttons that go to the highest bidder.
I have one remote that still has a useless Rdio button.
- ehPReth 4y ago> via selling user’s television watching behavior Gross. I hate how commonplace this is becoming. Even your basic non-Roku-OS TV people are saying never to connect it to the internet as it'll just fingerprint stuff on your HDMI and tell advertisers you're watching Game of Thrones
- DaiPlusPlus 4y agoI used to think like that, then I realised that my life is not actually being made worse because of it. The TV doesn’t know who I am, personally (I’m not signed-in to any accounts) and it’s all just mass aggregate data that will probably end-up being ignored by network-execs so why worry?
- slackdog 4y agoI'm not worried about some specific risk coming from Roku itself. But Roku contributes to the normalization of surveillance capitalism which I think is fundamentally corrosive to a free and democratic society. Having such a business model makes Roku a willful part of the problem, so I want nothing to do with them.
- scarface74 4y agoMy issue with Roku is that advertising makes it a bad product.