@Sugarking wrote:
@DBDukes .... Just because you don't use the adult channels or don't like them, doesn't mean they should be removed forever. ...
Who says I don't use them or like them? How do you know the PornHub app wasn't on my Roku last night and then gone this morning, removed by Roku?
Your statements are indicative of the problem. You are making assumptions that are not based on the facts. That's not to say there's not a germ of truth here and there in what you right, but you are still writing based on incorrect information or assumptions.
Roku is not doing away with the functionality as intended. But, because of the abuse of the system by developers, Roku is cracking down on things. They are wiping away the mess that it has become, and starting anew, with a new name for it that more accurately reflects the original intent. They are enforcing both a time limit (120 days) and a user base (20 users) for development. That's what is changing, and why.
Roku never supported PornHub nor VidAngel (the other group that's grabbed their pitchforks and stormed the castle). Roku has a way for developers to put an app before the public while it's tweaked and submitted. It's for no other purpose but that. Roku was very lenient in how the process was used, but the intent was that. So what happened? Companies like PornHub, VidAngel, and others decided to use that system as a permanent solution. They abused the system.
Here's an analogy you won't like. Imagine it's Halloween and you have a nice house, a nice yard, and some really good candy set aside for Trick or Treaters. You have good stuff. Not those tiny candies like you find at Dollar Tree, but full size Snickers bars. Really good stuff. You tell the Trick or Treaters they can have one. One. But some take more than one. Word gets around the neighborhood and more and more come by and take more than one. Some take a handful.
Now, the next year, they come back. And the next. And the next. They're grown, bringing their own kids now, and not only do their kids take full size Snickers bars, they take them too. Handfuls.
Years have gone by, these people have abused your Halloween candy policy for all these years. Finally, you say, "Enough." And you put a stop to it. Maybe you even go so far as to buy Snickers Minis. Or switch to Jolly Ranchers. And the next Halloween, these Trick or Treaters stand in your yard and yell at you for being mean.
The VidAngel crowd yells at Roku for dropping support of the app. Roku never supported the app. The app developers abused the Roku system, and Roku stopped it. The PornHub crowd is yelling at Roku for removing their app. Roku never approved the app to start with. PornHub abused the system by running on a process it was never designed for.
Roku never allowed either app in, and now they're making a big stink about being escorted out.
DBDukes
Roku Community Streaming Expert
Note: I am not a Roku employee.
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