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JLR2025
Newbie
2 months ago

Commercial and ads feedback

Roku like all streaming platforms are trying (not very well I might add) by running as many adverts as they can squeeze in. This was the whole reason I went to this platform, now even with the advert selections turned off, still get annoying worthless adverts on horrible shows, and insulting adverts on extremely stupid products. I keep cancelling more and more subscriptions due this issue. And in the end will probably stop Roku as well since it is nothing more than a large terrible advert all day long. Terrible terrible direction Roku has turned too!!!!!

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  • andyross's avatar
    andyross
    Roku Guru
    2 months ago

    Most of the main streaming services have ad-free subscriptions.

    Ads are not unique to Roku. Every ad-supported free service or subscription will have more and more useless ads as they scramble for eyeballs. Going to a FireTV or similar will make no difference with most services. An Apple TV has no direct on-screen ads, but there is still a continue-watching or recommended picture at the top for whichever service you pick if you are on the top row of apps, and it supports that. The only true ad-free would be to use a Google TV device and put it in apps-only mode. There may also be various Android/Google TV launchers with clean interfaces.