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The Fox acquisition was the last straw for me too. I've watched Roku go from a user-friendly streaming device to a front end for an advertising company. A couple of years ago it became so irritating it finally pushed me to implement an Adguard Home DNS sinkhole after years of thinking it wasn't worth the trouble. Roku has also made it difficult to block ads, big gaps are shown in the UI when you do, and some apps can't be updated without disabling Adguard and downloading a bunch of Roku's ads too.
Yesterday I bought an Onn streaming box (Android TV) and it's like going from a abacus to a computer. After a couple of hours configuring, loading a new launcher, and using ADB to debloat I've got an ad-free, clean interface with much of Google's tracking disabled (at least as much as possible). Even better, some things (like the remote's volume control) work that never worked with Roku.
It was such a breath of fresh air I just ordered a couple more ($15 for the 2k model right now) and will have completely dumped Roku by the end of the week.
It's been a long time coming.
If they make you do all that work to scrape the shit out of their asses, why do you still dwell there, rather than sailing the high seas?
I prefer to pay the content creators for their work.
no shade on spaghettiwestern, but people will go a long way for convenience.
Not seeing anywhere close to $15 for any of their models
Yeah noticed that myself.
They've upped the price I see to $19.88 in the last hour. The nearby stores are now out too. What prices are you seeing?