My dog tore up the remote so we were forced to use the roku app to control the tv.
They’re showing ads on the remote app. It feels like we can never escape this dystopian hellacape.
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I had something similar happen. You can find loads of replacement remotes online for very little money.
A replacement remote for my roku stick cost more than a whole new roku box.
I’m not getting this, at least not yet.
Maybe it’s because I run Pi-hole; I know it filters out a TON of Roku’s telemetry and other traffic. Might be worth setting up Pi-hole on your network and see if stuff like that goes away?
How did you set your roku to use your pihole? I have no router access so i have to change each client’s dns. Roku doesnt allow changing their dns
It requires your pihole to act as DHCP server as well. From what I can tell, Roku is hard-coded to use whatever address is handed out. It’s easily responsible for 60% of the blocked domains on my pihole.
If you don’t have admin access to the ISP router, your only recourse is to put a consumer router behind it (You’d just hook up the consumer router’s internet port to one of the LAN ports on the ISP router) and connect all of your devices to that. That way you can disable the DHCP server on the router and enable it on the pihole.
Can’t you just tell your current dhcp to use the pihole as dns? That’s how I set it up.
My router, (a TP-Link, can’t remember the exact model) will still list itself in the list of nameservers even if I just specify the pihole. Since I can’t seem to find anywhere in the router’s interface to turn that behavior off, I’ve resorted to using the pihole as DHCP as well.
But yeah, usually you can just use whatever DHCP server you have already
He probably had router access.
Are you using the actual official remote app? It looks different from mine and doesn’t have the “featured” tab shown
Could be A/B testing that Roku is doing.
Yeah, they updated it. Just opened my app and it has the Featured section.
Apparently, they also worsened the UI
Damn, thanks I just turned off auto update for it so I can stay on this version as long as possible lmao 😂
That’s crappy, but have you seen what other remote apps are doing?
Vizio has an ad that takes up around 25% of the screen!
MyQ has a large scrolling ad at the top, and they are actively hostile towards any integration that allows you to control your garage door without using their app (unless you use one of the very few subscription-based integrations they offer, of course).
Honestly, if I saw this after installing a new TV, smart home appliances, etc. I would rip them back out of my house and return them all. That is absurd.
HDMI port + your computer/some sort of more reputable 3rd party device. Just don’t play ball lol
hot damn 😵💫
Rage against the garage door opener.
And at least when I tried to pihole the tracking bullshit, it got mad and stopped working.
This is not new
What Ads? I don’t have Ads in the interface nor in the app. Okay the reason could be my openwrt router is set up with Stubby DoT and blocklists from AdguardHome.
My dog tore up the remote so we were forced to use the roku app to control the tv.
Force your dog to watch ads as a punishment
There are no ads in your screenshot
“Featured” tab on the bottom right
Setup a pi-hole, you’ll never be happier.
this ad in particular goes through it. I have one and set up my phone to use it.
That’s because it’s a menu button, not an ad
Sun tzu once said a menu button that leads to an ad is considered an ad
Wrong, that was Michael Scott
https://gist.github.com/Hyp5r/6771da91b65ce899630aab3d823f1b88
Use the Roku section
Doesn’t help with YouTube, has to be constantly updated, requires more tech know-how than the average person, unfortunately. Most people don’t feel comfortable digging around in their modem settings.
We need more consumer protections. The floor is too low.
Not that hard to get it to auto update if you’re already techie enough to set it up.
Big “if” for most people tbh
Roku to me has always seemed like a bogged down, spammy platform. I’ve always been surprised at how often it gets recommended in cord cutting and self hosting sort of forums.
I have a fire stick and a roku device. The Firestick is a slow, ad ridden POS, the Roku UI is much more straightforward forward to me.
Every Roku thing I’ve used was slow and had a bad remote and UI and I recall seeing ads of some kind in at least some of them.
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Gross.
Well, it is a Roku.
If you don’t want ads, spend more on an AppleTV, which seems to be the only thing that isn’t trying to jam ads down your throat.
I don’t think you need the rest of the Apple system, you can just install Netflix and Plex and whatever else you use.
Don’t buy apple’s expensive garbage. If you are thinking about getting some Apple TV device you should get a shield, an Android TV, even a raspberry pi 4b would be better than bending over for apple.
Just stop giving that fucking company your money.
Show us on the doll where Apple hurt you.
A large part of my job is helping young people and seniors learn how to use technology. Apple makes that much more difficult because Apple stuff only works the Apple way none of it translates to any other technology.
Whenever I talk to somebody who doesn’t know what a folder is, what a browser is, that when they download files they go to a place, how to share content with non Apple users, how to use non Apple software, how to use any other non Apple technology, its because Apple wants it that way. I just don’t understand why a company this abusive would have fans.
It’s like being a fan of Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Wells Fargo, or The Pinkertons. You are paying extra for fashion accessories that are objectively lower spec and with a reduced feature list than the alternative that is cheaper. The only benefit of Apple devices is the security, And that’s easily bypassed because they don’t need to compromise the device to get your information from Apple.
I’ll admit I don’t know much about Android TV but is non trivial to set up a raspberry pi for TV.
The apple solution just works and seemingly doesn’t hate the user.
Android TV allows you to sideload apps very easily. I use several sideload apps. It’s friggin wonderful.
That is the side of iOS and Apple’s stuff I hate.
What kind of apps are you side loading? Apple TV has VLC and Plex, which seem like the apps people who manage their own media use. Of course you need a NAS or server to host your content and it won’t do that. Then all the major streaming services have first party apps (though Netflix seems to neglect theirs)
Smart tube The best YouTube app. Strips all the ads and much more.
And another one for IPTV.
Cool thanks, I’ve never tried the alternative YouTube apps, whether I open the website it gives very questionable revomendatuons to me.
AppleTVs are really nice. It’s easily the best streaming device for the layman and I say that as someone who generally dislikes Apple’s products. It’s solid, small, and is fairly easy to integrate.
An Nvidia shield costs more money than an Apple TV. Unless you need those extra features, it’s a waste
It’s insane that you’d recommend an Android TV, though. Shit performance and data harvesting galore. Never connect your tv to your network.
All of the data harvesting of Android TV can be blocked with ease. None of the closed ecosystem, price gouging, or feature rot of Apple devices can be worked around in any way.
If you’re content with the limited offerings available on Apple devices and the exorbitant prices you have to pay to get access to them then by all means continue to fund that nightmare company and it’s war on consumers.
OP is using Jellyfin. I don’t think they’re planning on subscribing to Apple’s monthly services.
AppleTV (the device) is cheap as fuck for what you’re getting because subscribers is the real money maker for them. What feature rot do you speak of? I installed AppleTVs for years and the only functionality my clients ever lost was when they forced iCloud integration for awhile. I also think it has by far the best remote of any streaming device but that’s personal preference.
I use a heavily-blocked Roku Ultra so it’s not a fanboy but you’re like…a reverse fanboy. Hating on it for the weakest of reasons
If I could get Apple devices in an open compatibility I wouldn’t hate them I probably still wouldn’t buy them though.
My hatred comes from the fact that I believe critical thinking and mental flexibility are very important skills for people to develop at a very young age. I think one of the most important avenues for the development of reasoning and technical skills is through interaction with technology.
That technology should encourage and reward your curiosity. Apple does not reward curiosity or encourage it, it taxes it to such a degree that Apple users are by and large technologically illiterate.
I grew up on Apple computers, and when I was little the Mac nerds we’re doing some pretty cool and impressive shit with their Mac tech that you just can’t do now. It was a gateway to me learning about a lot of this technology, but they are a walled garden now, and it gets worse every year.
I’ve been programming on apple devices for over 15 years, you can do a lot with a Mac.
What can’t you do now? It’s still a full on unix system, in fact it’s way easier to get stuff done with Brew than when I started using Macs.
Are you on Android?
If so: RoMote is pretty good. Here’s the releases page for the APK. It’s also F-Droid.
RoMote (Turns your Android Device into a control center for Roku)
Enshittification marches on
