If you got to settings and go down to home screen
you can hide the show recommendations and it will take away the continue watching bar
Title 16. Chapter I. Subchapter C. Part 312.5 (b) (1) of COPPA states that “an operator MUST make reasonable efforts to obtain verifiable parental consent, taking into consideration available technology. Any method to obtain verifiable parental consent must be reasonably calculated, in light of available technology, to ensure that the person providing consent is the child's parent.”
Roku’s system changes without an option to remove recently watched section goes directly against COPPA and similar federal, state and local laws.
What Roku representative is stating in the response above is: "Hide Roku remotes from your kids because we don't care about them and we make mature content readily accessible.” I created an account on this forum to voice my concern. However, if the option to remove recently watched programs is not included in future updates, I will submit an official FTC complaint and encourage others to do so. As previously stated in another post there is no “clear all” available. Like others, I tried removing recently watched one by one but not all of them can be removed. Roku, in its responses or lack thereof is clearly refusing to cooperate.
Since ROKU doesn't apparently give a **bleep** about its customers, what are some good replacement options? Amazon Fire is my first thought. Other suggestions?
There are a few. Apple TV, Amazon has a Fire Cube. my sister has been solely fire and Apple TV for years. They left Roku a long time ago and haven’t looked back.
google has chrome cast haven’t used it in years so I don’t know what the new one is like.
NVIDIA has a streaming device now. I’ve always like NVIDIA and MAC products. I like Apple TV and plan on trying the NVIDIA platform.
Roku community support, there are SEVERAL threads with MANY angry people about this "feature", can you please escalate this to the actual support team?
It should not be shown if disabled in the settings menu, end of story. It's a bug, fix it already.
