Video Ads Autoplaying on Homescreen
please make the setting automaticalty disabled on the filling device types: Players Tvs
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That man is a jackass.
A video ad pops up on my Roku home screen upon first accessing the Roku player. The ad holds the view hostage and prevents the viewer from accessing their channels until the ad is over. There is a ‘close’ button below the ad that doesn’t work.
This type of ‘hostage’ advertising is hideous and frustrating, it is very YouTube-ish – it could be enough to make me pay-up for an Apple device.
Based on my browsing this forum, Roku doesn't fix anything and certainly won't change/revert what amounts to an increase in ad revenue.
They don't care about your experience, that's why they're fine with so many other glaring issues here.
They're doing the math, and have decided we're in too small of numbers to care, only when it affects revenue does the corporate office notice.
That said..
I use a Pihole and it successfully blocks roku ads everywhere except in streaming content, because those ads are served differently.
Where there was once two advertisements on my Roku Ultra's home screen, there are two blank spaces that allow me to enjoy my seasonal theme instead, like it should.
You can set up a Pihole in many ways, all cheap and straight forward, you can set them up with zero knowledge of networking just follow the guides. I run mine on a raspberry pi 4.
My Pihole is constantly blocking data from Roku's, when they're not accessing ads they're stealing information.
My next streaming devices will all be Nvidia Shield's. They're the most powerful and customizable streaming devices on the market, no more Roku Ultra's after the issues I've had and all Roku says is "thanks for letting us know, we'll look into it." Which amounts to nothing.
Here are the CDN's I'm blocking for anyone with the know-how:
ads.roku.com
display.ravm.tv
cloudservices.roku.com
customer-feedbacks.web.roku.com
identity.ads.roku.com
scribe.logs.roku.com
logs.roku.com
ravm.tv
p.ads.roku.com
i.ads.roku.com
tyler.logs.roku.com
giga.logs.roku.com
cooper.logs.roku.com
assets.sr.roku.com
prod.mobile.roku.com
wwwimg.roku.com
amoeba.web.roku.com
austin.logs.roku.com
griffin.logs.roku.com
liberty.logs.roku.com
littlefield.logs.roku.com
paolo.logs.roku.com
sugarland.logs.roku.com
victoria.logs.roku.com
windsor.logs.roku.com
traces.sr.roku.com
track.sr.roku.com
identity-dev.ads.roku.com
lagrange.logs.roku.com
midland.logs.roku.com
mobile.logs.roku.com
richmond.logs.roku.com
rollingwood.logs.roku.com
rxr.ravm.tv
samples.voice.cti.roku.com
benjamin.logs.roku.com
hereford.logs.roku.com
longview.logs.roku.com
camden.logs.roku.com
bryan.logs.roku.com
amarillo.logs.roku.com
digdug.logs.roku.com
digdug-g2.logs.roku.com
esp.logs.roku.com
gilbert.logs.roku.comJust ordered my 1st Walmart ONN for $20. If it works out, I'm replacing my 3 roku boxs with and taping one to the back of each of my 3 roku TVs. 6 roku devices that will never block-auto-play audio video ads again once the boxes are in e-waste and the TVs have wifi disconnected and get demoted to HDMI monitors. All it will take is $120 to fix this and never deal with Roku auto play ads again on 6 devices across the entire house/family. There's your test results. About the same price as taking the family out to eat at a mid range restaurant. Your competitors are there ready to gobble up your user base and you're firmly flopping around in the FAFO ball pit like it's a McPlayPlace in the 90s.
Bahahaha! "firmly flopping around in the FAFO ball pit like it's a McPlayPlace in the 90s." Thats savage AF. Love it. They are going to learn the hardware apparently!
