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“Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen (arstechnica.com)
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[–] CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

About 10 years old actually. It's the TI-83 of streaming boxes at this point: an absolute fucking rip-off. Pretty on-brand for Nvidia though.

[–] CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

Yeah it's got about the same specs as a $30 Amazon tablet and you'd now be relying on the largest ad company in the world (Google) instead of Roku, so it does seem like a total ripoff at $200