"This TV is my personal property — not a playground for Roku's marketing goals."
Well put! I feel exactly the same way! We pay for these Roku devices and we should not have any new junk 'features' forced on us without the ability to hide them!
Adding extra stuff like this is fine, as long as they include options in the settings to completely disable them! Which they've failed to do. The only thing I want to see on my Roku Home Screen is my Channel/App tiles!
Now I have movies and shows popping up in a "Continue Watching" row on my home screen of things under "Continue Watching" in the The Roku Channel app! This is completely ridiculous that Roku thinks I want this crammed onto my home screen!
The only way to remove the titles from the home screen is to remove them from continue watching and that also removes them from the "Continue Watching" row within The Roku Channel app itself, which is the one place where I actually do want to see my "Continue Watching" progress!
The people at Roku who designed these new annoyances that they think are useful features are completely out of touch with what customers want! Even if they listen to our negative feedback and remove all of this junk from showing up on the home screen or they give us the ability to hide it ourselves I bet it will takes months before it happens!
Roku, don't design new features unless you also have designed new settings for users to turn them off at the same time! This way anyone who hates your additions can shut them off and we won't have to waste our time complaining here! Use some common sense!
