The day I see video ads on my Roku devices will be the day I order a competitor's product. I WILL NOT BE SUBJECT TO FORCED VIDEO ADS. I imagine I'm not alone. I'll also likely be helping to replace other family members devices as they begin to complain about the ads. And even worse, you'll have turned a fervent Roku evangelist into a hater. I don't know if Roku staff even frequents this forum much, but I hope someone can stop this CEO from shooting his own company in the foot.
The various tech websites that have reported on this story are filled with users who are angry even at the thought of this type of bad user experience. I can only imagine how many families with young children are going to end up with traumatized kids when invariably there will end up being some video ad for a horror movie (especially when there are already reports in this community of inappropriate static ads).
Does Roku just want to be an advertisement platform? Many of us pay for premium content in order to avoid ads, Roku lately seems to feel it is perfectly acceptable to force ads onto their customers. This is very Dystopian.
Yes, they do. 86% of their profits come from ad related sales and just 14% comes from sale of Roku devices/hardware. Their priority and main focus is selling the screen that we bought and paid for to the highest bidder. Let's see if they ban, block and delete me here like they did on Reddit. 😕
Yup ... I spent last evening setting up my new Dune HD Homatics Box R 4K Plus Android TV Box, $149 from Amazon. Added a custom launcher called "Projectivy", $7 for lifetime use. No ads, ANYWHERE. It has 4gb ram and 32gb rom. My old Roku Ultra 4660 had just 1gb ram and 512mb rom. The comparison is like a VW Beetle to a Dodge Viper. WOW! 🙂
Just bought a second Dune HD ... Great device. 🙂
