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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by _number8_@lemmy.world to c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world

we live in hell

I don't even understand the pitch? you have the disc playing, in your hands, your ownership, no buffering, no subscription required. and they're saying....hey do you want a worse experience?

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[-] tdawg@lemmy.world 207 points 1 year ago

What brand? so I know NOT to buy it

[-] AZERTY@feddit.nl 38 points 1 year ago

The little asterisk symbol on the screen is leading me to believe it's a Roku.

[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

I have two roku tvs. The day I see this is the day they get disconnected.

[-] cybervseas@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

You can probably use a pi-hole to block those things.

[-] linkinkampf19@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The amount of Roku stuff my PiHole blocks is asinine. I just recently added a blocklist for smart TVs and it ballooned the query counts like mad.

+1 for PiHole. Worth the ~$40 for the Pi Zero W and accessories alone.

[-] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

That's because they retry failed connections until they can phone home again. They aren't normally making tens of thousands of requests.

[-] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It can scream into the void for as long as it wants.

[-] TubeTalkerX@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago
[-] Rognaut@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I believe it's Roku. That purple symbol in the bottom right is on the remote as well.

Very budget so this doesn't surprise me.

[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Fuck Roku. Don't buy these. They shove ads down your throat constantly, and they proactively, aggressively stop methods of circumvention.

[-] idunnololz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Wtf I thought roku TV were one of the good ones. I use a Roku thing that you plug in and I haven't seen this yet.

[-] aeronmelon@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

The Roku box was one of the good ones... about ten years ago. Though maybe this is just a TV thing. TIL Roku makes actual screens.

In the past few years especially, I've seen so many unshakable "good ones" go bad. Some, in the worst possible way.

[-] apprehensively_human@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

My Sharp TV runs Roku software. Suffice it to say I do not have it web connected and use an android box instead

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

The good ones go bad eventually :(

[-] Stupidmanager@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

The poster really needs to just turn off the Smart TV experience.

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