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Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads (www.lowpass.cc)

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Roku is exploring ways to show consumers ads on its TVs even when they are not using its streaming platform: The company has been looking into injecting ads into the video feeds of third-party devices connected to its TVs, according to a recent patent filing.

This way, when an owner of a Roku TV takes a short break from playing a game on their Xbox, or streaming something on an Apple TV device connected to the TV set, Roku would use that break to show ads. Roku engineers have even explored ways to figure out what the consumer is doing with their TV-connected device in order to display relevant advertising.

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[-] Kalysta@lemm.ee 55 points 7 months ago

This is gross. I cut my cable because of ads. Have about 3 types of adblockers on my computer to stop them. This hyper marketing is why so many have turned away from traditional entertainment to begin with.

I am more than the ability to spend money and it’s goddamn time everyone say this and boycott companies that do shady garbage like this

[-] danciestlobster@lemm.ee 7 points 7 months ago

I have ubo, what are your other kinds of ad blocking? I always want to block as many ads as possible

[-] JK_Flip_Flop@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago

I suspect they might be talking about a DNS based ad blocking solution. Like Pi-Hole or AdGaurd DNS.

They work by blocking DNS requests made by ads so the content can never be accessed. They're theoretically more powerful than browser extensions as they have the opportunity to block ads anywhere.

[-] Kalysta@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago

While we have one (Pi-hole) I can’t use it right now because some of my roommate’s work software won’t run with it and we haven’t had time to troubleshoot. So I have a bunch of extensions in my browser on my pc

[-] JK_Flip_Flop@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

You could configure the DNS only on devices that don't have issues with it rather than the network as a whole?

[-] Opisek@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

That, and you can also decide what (if anything) gets blocked on a per MAC/IP/FQDN basis, so you can explicitly allow ads for specific devices.

[-] Kalysta@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Adblock plus, flashblock, ublock, and one that stops videos from autoplaying but i can’t remember it’s name right now.

My roommate has raspberry pi but it messes with his’s wife’s work software so we never have it active. Which is a shame because i’d rather use that.

Oh, and Brave browser on my phone. It’s lovely.

[-] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

The Pihole has groups that you can separate devices with and remove blocks for those devices.

So you can have your stuff fully blocked and then her device can have the problematic blocks removed.

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