today I fucking learned Roku is now a Murdoch Box.

  • solarvector@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    22 hours ago

    Roku will automatically switch the Aquatic Life screensaver on affected devices to the Roku City screensaver, another popular animation that includes subtle advertisements, according to the user notice

    Ugh.

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        20 hours ago

        Yeah, it’s literal billboards that slowly pass in the cityscape, looking like a flat PNG pasted over it, not matching tone or theme in any way. It’s not subtle in the least.

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          I have this screensaver enabled on my home TVs. One day I went to a restaurant and they had the same screensaver showing on some of it’s TVs but they had these giant billboard ads scrolling by covering parts of the screensaver. That’s the day I learned that AdGuard DNS blocks the billboards (not just the ad but the entire billboard).

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          The subtle ones are probably the movie references in the background. The Avengers tower is a subtle hint to watch the MCU, etc.