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Pashta's avatar
Pashta
Channel Surfer
7 months ago

Re: Video Ads Autoplaying on Homescreen

I am here because we bought the AD FREE Roku stick a few years ago and suddenly are now seeing ads!  WE PAID MORE for this version, specifically!  We should NOT be seeing any banner ads at all on this Roku and I need it fixed immediately. 

Please help!  It's a 3930X Roku Express from 2021.

12 Replies

  • andyross's avatar
    andyross
    Roku Guru

    If you are complaining about the addition of video ads to the home screen, try making this change on all of your Roku devices:

    Go to Settings/Accessibility/Autoplay video, and change it to OFF.

    This will only stop video ads, not the static ads, which have been on Roku for a long time. As other have posted, the right-side static ad has been there since my first Roku in 2016.

    • Pashta's avatar
      Pashta
      Channel Surfer

      andyross ,The Roku ads are fine, it's 3rd party ads and popups that are not, and I think that is what the alternate Roku had on it, 3rd party ads to make the cost lower.  I bought the one without those ads.

      Thanks for the advice, I'll try it.  

  • renojim's avatar
    renojim
    Community Streaming Expert

    There was never an ad-free option unless it was some kind of scam.

    • Pashta's avatar
      Pashta
      Channel Surfer

      Incorrect.  There were two different versions for sale.  The Ad-Free version was more expensive. 

      We have not had any ads on this since we bought it in 2021 until recently.  I thought it was a glitch so I restarted it and waited but it keeps happening, so that's why I came here.

      • Strega2's avatar
        Strega2
        Roku Guru

        I think you may be confusing Roku with Kindle?  I know the latter makes an ad-free version.  I've never heard of an ad-free Roku, and the model number you listed was a standard Roku Express.