Comment on Google announces April 2024 shutdown date for Google Podcasts
laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year agoI can’t speak for the rest of the home products, but Roku is a pretty good alternative to Chromecast
Comment on Google announces April 2024 shutdown date for Google Podcasts
laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year agoI can’t speak for the rest of the home products, but Roku is a pretty good alternative to Chromecast
Shyfer@ttrpg.network 1 year ago
I hate that all the TCL TVs this year changed from Roku and Google this year to just Google. Give me some variety and competition. Also, I like their simpler out-of-the-box interface better with less ads and such, even though the Google TV interface is more customizable.
MashedTech@lemmy.world 1 year ago
ROKU TV HAS ADS AS WELL?
SuzyQ@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Yes they do. Usually one big ad on the side of the screen. And they may if you use certain screen savers. I think the city scapes one puts ads in it. Note: all the ads I mention are static images without sound.
MashedTech@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Is there any TV software without ads that works well?
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 1 year ago
Hoo BOY does Roku have ads! When I installed PiHole on my network and used it as my local DNS, the TOP blocked domain was “scribe.roku.com”. It was calling home like 5000 times a day. We were thinking every single remote push maybe.
Blocking those domains made the entire interface speed up drastically, and got rid of the giant box ads on the side as well. (It’s just a big empty frame now lol).
Rokus are nice and cheap if you can mitigate their rampant data harvesting.