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Home screen hijacked by autoplay ads

So I just experienced my first "auto-play" ad on the home screen. Pressed the "home" button and a video ad for Moana started playing and it wouldn't let me navigate away from it. I am totally NOT a fan of something that I cannot click away. I'm perfectly fine with ads on the screen and in the screensaver and whatnot, but hijacking the home screen so that you can't even use it for several seconds is completely unacceptable. I contact3ed support and notified them that if this kind of behavior continues, I will be replacing all of my Roku TVs with Amazon Fire TVs. 

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Sequoia22
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Re: Home screen hijacked by autoplay ads

Same, this was incredibly intrusive and annoying. The static adds are fine but I will 100% switch if they keep these autopay videos.

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