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The fact that the ads are rolled out to customers a long time after purchase to escape the return window is extra frustrating. The part about being able to e-m

The fact that the ads are rolled out to customers a long time after purchase to escape the return window is extra frustrating. The part about being able to e-mail an obscure support address with your device's ID to have ads turned off on your device suggests that they're trying to see how far they can push this without damaging their brand. Users who complain enough get solutions, everyone else has to deal with it.

add-sub-mul-div 8mo ago
Roku has patched so much new garbage into the product since I originally bought mine. I'll never get another Roku device again.
- chromic04850 8mo ago
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- mox1 8mo ago
  Its the only device in our household that I have utterly failed at securing or blocking content from our children on. My son has found about 25 different ways to access YouTube across our Android, Android TV, Apple and Roku devices. I have found ways in almost all of them to "nicely" block youtube for him (while keeping it for me or keeping the device functional). Roku is the only one that just doesn't give a crap. Screw Roku.
  - nosioptar 8mo ago
    Roku loves auto changing to really innapropriate shit after the kid appropriate episode ends. For example, start an episode of Mittens and Pants for four year old, at end of episode, instead of playing next episode, it switched to Married With Children.
    - ffsm8 8mo ago
      From your first paragraph I was expecting something from the old degen meta like "naked yoga" or "transparent haul" or whatever they're currently doing... Or maybe some of the brainrot genai content that's been booming on kids tv Kinda surprised you consider a completely banal sitcom to be problematic for children. I mean I'd expect the kids to think it's boring and not get any of the subplot... But it's completely family safe?
      - Eddy_Viscosity2 8mo ago
        The kid is four. There is a difference between safe and appropriate. The recommender could at least suggest something in the same genre. It could also have suggested a deep dive into financial markets, not unsafe content for kids, but also not kid appropriate either.
mindslight 8mo ago
In addition to being "extra frustrating", it's a straightforward CFAA violation - if laws actually applied to corpos.
longislandguido 8mo ago
If you deliberately buy a bargain brand Chinese television, you earned the consequences of that decision. Be happy they're only showing you ads and not implanting malware into your network or turning it into a residential proxy.
- RobotToaster 8mo ago
  Fire sticks also show ads
- notrealyme123 8mo ago
  This is in no way a china exclusive problem.
- OkayPhysicist 8mo ago
  When did we start calling things "residential proxies" as opposed to "botnets"? I feel like the latter term, while perhaps not as descriptive, has a much better "this is evil" message.
  - halJordan 8mo ago
    It's not a botnet. The fact that you're trying to use that term because you prefer the emotions it gives you instead of a different term based on reality is all anyone should need to reject your suggestion
- nerevarthelame 8mo ago
  For years Hisense has been a highly recommended brand for mid-tier TVs on (relatively) objective review sites like rtings.com. Their customers don't deserve bad things to happen to them. And the Anti-Chinese sentiment is especially weird in the context of advertising, as though the West was spared from intrusive ads prior to this.
- Kasutaja111 8mo ago
  Yea instead of blaming the company for pulling crap like that let's shame the owners of the hardware they paid for because of course that'll help, yeah let's blame each other instead because at least that way we're not blaming the holy corporate overlords

add-sub-mul-div 8mo ago

Roku has patched so much new garbage into the product since I originally bought mine. I'll never get another Roku device again.

chromic04850 8mo ago
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mox1 8mo ago
Its the only device in our household that I have utterly failed at securing or blocking content from our children on. My son has found about 25 different ways to access YouTube across our Android, Android TV, Apple and Roku devices. I have found ways in almost all of them to "nicely" block youtube for him (while keeping it for me or keeping the device functional). Roku is the only one that just doesn't give a crap. Screw Roku.
- nosioptar 8mo ago
  Roku loves auto changing to really innapropriate shit after the kid appropriate episode ends. For example, start an episode of Mittens and Pants for four year old, at end of episode, instead of playing next episode, it switched to Married With Children.
  - ffsm8 8mo ago
    From your first paragraph I was expecting something from the old degen meta like "naked yoga" or "transparent haul" or whatever they're currently doing... Or maybe some of the brainrot genai content that's been booming on kids tv Kinda surprised you consider a completely banal sitcom to be problematic for children. I mean I'd expect the kids to think it's boring and not get any of the subplot... But it's completely family safe?
    - Eddy_Viscosity2 8mo ago
      The kid is four. There is a difference between safe and appropriate. The recommender could at least suggest something in the same genre. It could also have suggested a deep dive into financial markets, not unsafe content for kids, but also not kid appropriate either.

mindslight 8mo ago

In addition to being "extra frustrating", it's a straightforward CFAA violation - if laws actually applied to corpos.

longislandguido 8mo ago

If you deliberately buy a bargain brand Chinese television, you earned the consequences of that decision. Be happy they're only showing you ads and not implanting malware into your network or turning it into a residential proxy.

RobotToaster 8mo ago
Fire sticks also show ads
notrealyme123 8mo ago
This is in no way a china exclusive problem.
OkayPhysicist 8mo ago
When did we start calling things "residential proxies" as opposed to "botnets"? I feel like the latter term, while perhaps not as descriptive, has a much better "this is evil" message.
- halJordan 8mo ago
  It's not a botnet. The fact that you're trying to use that term because you prefer the emotions it gives you instead of a different term based on reality is all anyone should need to reject your suggestion
nerevarthelame 8mo ago
For years Hisense has been a highly recommended brand for mid-tier TVs on (relatively) objective review sites like rtings.com. Their customers don't deserve bad things to happen to them. And the Anti-Chinese sentiment is especially weird in the context of advertising, as though the West was spared from intrusive ads prior to this.
Kasutaja111 8mo ago
Yea instead of blaming the company for pulling crap like that let's shame the owners of the hardware they paid for because of course that'll help, yeah let's blame each other instead because at least that way we're not blaming the holy corporate overlords