Lee Duna to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish • 10 months agoAmazon is now automatically playing fullscreen video ads on Fire TV9to5google.comexternal-linkmessage-square93fedilinkarrow-up1221arrow-down10
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minus-squareDrusaslinkfedilink4•10 months agoUntil recently, yeah. Recently, my Roku TV is forcing me to interact with an ad (express interest or disinterest) before I can even launch an app.
minus-squareTakatakatakatakataklinkfedilinkEnglish6•10 months agoThat sounds like something that should be illegal. You bought the screen. It belongs to you. Can you root the TV and be rid of that horrible functionality?
minus-squareripcordlinkfedilink3•10 months agoI have a bunch of Rokus and never seen that. That sucks
minus-squareDrusaslinkfedilink2•10 months agoHopefully it’s some sort of A/B testing that you’ll never see.
Until recently, yeah. Recently, my Roku TV is forcing me to interact with an ad (express interest or disinterest) before I can even launch an app.
That sounds like something that should be illegal. You bought the screen. It belongs to you.
Can you root the TV and be rid of that horrible functionality?
Dunno, I’m too lazy.
I have a bunch of Rokus and never seen that. That sucks
Hopefully it’s some sort of A/B testing that you’ll never see.