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tecweasel's avatar
tecweasel
Reel Rookie
3 years ago
Solved

REMOVE recommended for you on roku home screen

my roku devices are now showing a row of recommended/featured channels/programs/apps and it is annoying to be polite. i don't see a way to hide this new row of recommended channels.  pressing home d...
  • RokuJechealR's avatar
    RokuJechealR
    2 years ago

    Hey everyone, and thanks for posting!

    You can customize your recommendations now!

    Go to Settings > Home Screen > Recommendation Rows. You'll find an option to show or hide them.

    After that, try restarting your Roku: Settings > System > Power > System restart.

    Let us know if that helps!

    Cheers,
    The Roku Community Team

ibaldsg's avatar
ibaldsg
Reel Rookie
2 years ago

Adding my voice here. SERIOUSLY dislike the Recommended For You row. My suggestion is move it to the bottom of the tiles, and give parents the option to turn it off completely.

RokuCarly's avatar
RokuCarly
Community Moderator
2 years ago

Hey everyone,

Thanks for your feedback – we’re passing it along to the team!
Got more ideas or suggestions? Just let us know! We’re always here to listen.

Thanks again!
Roku Community Team

  • bowmatt's avatar
    bowmatt
    Reel Rookie
    2 years ago

    Cool. While you’re going to “raise this with the team,” I’m literally looking at recommended titles of “17 & Life Jailbait” and “Virtual Girl 2” every time my kids turn on the TV. Thanks for making it a priority to fix this Roku! This has already been a couple weeks now. This can’t be that hard to correct. Maybe the media would be interested in hearing from angry customers with the same soft core porn titles showing up when their kids turn on the TV?

    • Iweed's avatar
      Iweed
      Reel Rookie
      2 years ago

      I totally agree, this should not be that hard with technology. They just don't care. I have filed a complaint with the FCC. Hopefully, everyone will also file a complaint at the website FCC.gov.

  • Iweed's avatar
    Iweed
    Reel Rookie
    2 years ago

    "We'll raise this with the team". LOL.....this issue has been brought to your attention LONG AGO. I have filed a complaint with the FCC and have encouraged all others to do the same. Your company is promoting porn in a situation where children are present. But ROKU doesn't care about our children or family values. ROKU has gone WOKE following in the steps of Budweiser, etc.

    • miku39's avatar
      miku39
      Newbie
      2 years ago

      that has nothing to do with being woke. 

  • mandoor's avatar
    mandoor
    Newbie
    2 years ago

    Well......    What is taking so long to get "Recommended" removed  !?!?!?!?!

    Be adults, be less annoying,  give us an option to remove your annoying ads

  • Art101's avatar
    Art101
    Binge Watcher
    2 years ago

    Thanks, RokuCarly, but platitudes aren't particularly helpful. Please consider escalating this issue to someone higher up on the Roku corporate food chain... someone who's probably working well above your pay grade. For example, maybe you can pass this issue along to a billionaire named Anthony Wood. Based on a recent search, I believe he's the CEO of Roku. 

    • Emissary35's avatar
      Emissary35
      Roku Guru
      2 years ago

      "maybe you can pass this issue along to a billionaire named Anthony Wood. Based on a recent search, I believe he's the CEO of Roku."

      Great suggestion! However the problem is billionaire CEOs don't care about little stuff like this! They instruct their corporate minions to handle (or not handle in this case) these issues while they play golf all day and have expensive early lunches when they aren't in board meetings.

      • Art101's avatar
        Art101
        Binge Watcher
        2 years ago

        Amen, Emissary35. Great comments.

        This is symptomatic of a core problem at Roku. The user interface was buggy from the start because it wasn't truly about providing a great user experience. It wasn't about building a product users could trust. It was about short-term corporate greed... and an inability to see the big picture.

        I remember the day I bought, unboxed, and set up my Roku TV. I was sick to death of cable TV (aka Comcast, Xfinity, Spectrum, Cox, etc.) and wanted to cut the cord. Roku's marketing team is great at selling something we all want to believe. I was so hopeful.

        But after a few weeks with Roku, I realized my hopes are futile. It's just more of the same.

        Channels I "hide" mysteriously reappear. New channels I didn't ask for and will never watch suddenly appear and I must "hide" them. And there's the never-ending assault of ads, ads, ads, and more ads. I began to hate the advertisers and all advertisements.

        I could go on and on, but what good would it do? Roku is what it is.

        As for the issue we're talking about — Roku messing with our home screens via that horrible "Recommended" junk — I have an idea.

        It might be fun if someone at Roku support could escalate this entire thread to somebody who might actually profit from fixing it. I'm thinking about a billionaire called Anthony Wood. Last time I checked, he's the CEO of Roku.

  • kbatch27's avatar
    kbatch27
    Newbie
    12 months ago

    It's been a year and this issue is not corrected. 

  • Zapika's avatar
    Zapika
    Reel Rookie
    11 months ago

    This recently started showing in my grandparents screen and it's confusing to them, I already tried deactivating all the home screen options and the recommended for you keeps showing and they enter there and not to where they used to enter and use the tv to watch what they want, they get lost, may be simple for a younger person to just skip that but not for them, please allow to stop showing that row

     

    • BigHoward13's avatar
      BigHoward13
      Reel Rookie
      11 months ago

      Well I'm 61;and Roku Pushed me to the breaking point while I was on a massive amount of Steroids for my Knees and one arm 

      I actually apologized when they replied 

      Yet there is no excuse for them to do this other than $$money$$ they get paid for all the  screen space that they Ehore them selves out for 

      Since you said they had changed it again I will post a second time when I get home 

      Currently at food Bank # 7 in line still be 10 or 11 AM before I make it home

      Don't want to guess and cause more confusion make sure they have a simple remote inferred Amazon $5 to $8 for two if using the app since last up date u push one button and get something else so I'll see what I can come up with and add second post also is part of it LIVE TV keeps popping on  if so I personally think ROKU has done something to make the app send you there when you look at the live button or setting LoL then again last laugh may be on Roku and then Us Word in the business world is Amazon is looking to buy them  

      I'm about to buy a onni from Walmart or if I have the money one of the (can't remember name) will include with second post

      Peace Out 😎 🦖 😁