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“Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen (arstechnica.com)
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[–] Eezyville@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I just block all ads at the router level. When looking through the most blocked domains I see a lot from Roku.

[–] RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Im not very computer savvy and currently only have a tablet and a mac mini from 2008.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If you're not tech savy, how do you row row row your bot???

[–] ArtVandelay@lemmy.world 9 points 22 hours ago

Gently down the byte stream

[–] yeather@lemmy.ca 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

How do you do that?

[–] Eezyville@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Install ad block if you have a GL.iNet router or pihole