Comment on Roku has patented a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV

crazyminner@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not what laws are for.

  Is what guillotines are for.

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  • JonEFive@midwest.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Give me freedom from advertising or give me death.

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    • starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Roku would gladly do the latter if they thought it profitable

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      • quaddo@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Roku somehow thinking that the Ferengi rules of acquisition was a how-to guide book.

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  • AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Bread and circuses. They’re gouging us on the bread and making the circuses inaccessible, these dipshits are practically begging for a red terror, by making the worst outcome still better than the ongoing white.

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• jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Can’t we put these devices in some kind of dev mode and install software to stop this shit?

  I assume these devices run some kind of Linux kernel, with a stripped down Linux distro.

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  • swab148@startrek.website ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The problem there is proprietary hardware blobs, no one’s made open-source drivers for any of the myriad TV manufacturers, each with their own OS.

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    • jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      How do emby or jellyfin devs develop clients on roku?

      I would think, if you have that level of access, you could also stop or patch whatever OS services they run.

      Surely you can ssh into these devices right?

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  • 0x2d@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    roku generally puts a lot of effort into security

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    • ilmagico@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      “security” for themselves, not the customer, I guess

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