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“Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen (arstechnica.com)
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[–] candyman337 10 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

Reasons I turn off WiFi on any TV I buy and use a streaming box

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Any good recommendations?

[–] candyman337 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Onn 4k box or Nvidia shield

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Onn is just Walmart Roku, they will absolutely slather it in ads as soon as they figure out how. +1 on Nvidia shield.

[–] candyman337 1 points 4 hours ago

You can boot lineage os's android TV version easily on the onn one

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Roku will do this on their boxes too.

[–] candyman337 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah I don't get roku boxes lol. I have an nvidia shield pro, and I'm considering loading the lineageOS software on it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I got the shield too, it's amazing. Upgraded from an old Chromecast and it's night and day, didn't realize how slow the Chromecast was, even on Ethernet.

[–] candyman337 1 points 11 hours ago

oh man, hard agree, the shield is the kind of android boxes

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Roku devices and fire sticks belong in the recycle bin.

I switched everything to Apple TV .

[–] candyman337 4 points 12 hours ago

I'm not into the apple walled garden, I use android boxes

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

I was seeing the Moana promo with my Roku streaming stick on a Samsung TV. Didn't look like an ad exactly tho, just a nice ocean background behind the menu.

[–] candyman337 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

personally I prefer android streaming boxes, because you can install custom versions of android tv on them, so if the official release from google is bad, you can just go to the community version

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

There any custom versions you can point me to? I've been looking for a custom Android OS to install on my Insignia Fire TV.

[–] candyman337 0 points 10 hours ago

https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/

lineageOS, but you have to have a supported device, and I'm not seeing that device on there. Plus fire tv's are pretty locked down. I would suggest walmarts onn 4k box or an nvidia shield