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[Anonymous]

I asked them how to remove ads from my Roku TV and no one helped. They completely ignored my issue and directed me here. If anyone has any idea how to get rid of ads on Roku TV homepage, please let me know. Thanks. #Customerservice #ads

[makaiguy]

@Anonymous-

Roku derives income from displaying those home page ads.  Did you seriously expect them to tell you how not to display them?

[DBDukes]

@Anonymous 

There are four major platforms: Roku, Fire TV, Apple TV, Android/Google TV.

All advertise content in one way or another. Amazon's Fire TV interface has the most separate ads. Android/Google TV has the next most ads in the interface, followed by Roku. Apple TV has the fewest (none), however, Apple TV does as Amazon and Android/Google do with highlighting content within other content listings. It's more subtle, but it's advertising their content. Roku doesn't. Ads for content/apps are easily identifiable as such.

Now, within the content itself, you'll find ads on many free services. That's the way those free services -- Roku Channel, Pluto TV, Xumo, Tubi, Redbox, IMDB, and all the others -- make money. This is true regardless of platform. Turning off the ads is a violation of the Terms of Service to which you agreed.