Users are unimpressed, eager to toss devices if test sticks.

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    2 days ago

    News to me, what Roku do?

    I mean the sticks and boxes, not the TV’s themselves, I get those suck.

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      2 days ago

      I don’t understand the question. I’m reacting to this story, what the company is doing, without distinction between the branded TVs and peripheral devices.

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        1 day ago

        I get ads suck, and I was pissed and confused when I received one the other day on my Roku.

        I just didn’t know if there was some other reason that they were the worst thing that happened to TV that I missed.

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      2 days ago

      You ever wonder why many of Rokus remotes don’t come with a mute button? Weird huh… Maybe just an especially expensive button, huh?

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          It’s a problem. Also reports of some reviews that do have mute buttons, but the functionality gets selectively disabled - I.e. on the YouTube app, pressing mute will pause an ad, but not mute. The point is to force you to complete watching ads.

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            4 hours ago

            I’ve not run into that either, but YouTube doesn’t show me ads, fortunately

            It’s definitely a dark pattern