we live in hell

I don’t even understand the pitch? you have the disc playing, in your hands, your ownership, no buffering, no subscription required. and they’re saying…hey do you want a worse experience?

  • AZERTY@feddit.nlEnglish
    40·
    11 months ago

    The little asterisk symbol on the screen is leading me to believe it’s a Roku.

        • RandomPancake@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          11 months ago

          You can, but don’t forget to also block other outbound DNS connections in your firewall. Lots of “smart” devices are hard coded to use 8.8.8.8 regardless of what DHCP says. Pihole won’t stop those, so you have to block it at the firewall.

          • AtariDump@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            11 months ago

            Or redirect them to the PiHole.

            And don’t forget to block/redirect secure DNS on port 853.

        • frokie@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          11 months ago

          No, you can’t. I’m running pihole and have a TCL Roku tv connected via HDMI to an Apple TV, and the ROKU APP RECOGNIZES CONTENT FROM IT and makes the suggestion, overlaying it OVER THE HDMI STREAM.

          It’s the worst

          • Krauerking@lemy.lolEnglish
            3·
            11 months ago

            You can actually turn that off in the Roku settings. I did when I saw it demanding I watch my content from my PC on their shitty ad bloated sponsors.

            I am now realizing it might be more work than it’s worth for Roku even though I used to prefer their systems being a bit more stable.

          • cybervseas@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            11 months ago

            Ew that’s approaching dystopian levels of grossness. My tv should not be watching along with me.

      • yggstyle@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        11 months ago

        They put one too many ads on the home screen… then they made them larger…

        fuck em. they get nothing now.

        blocked their ad servers at the DNS level.

            • frokie@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              11 months ago

              Those channels precisely. They get ad revenue when you watch it on their channels. If they can get Roku to bring them traffic, Roku would charge for that. No engineering effort goes unpaid.

      • dan1101@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        I have an old Roku Express or something similar and love it. It has an RF remote and a very responsive UI. But it is slowly becoming crappier with the infrequent updates.