[kurts_mustache]

Roku makes me so sad. They had a product I really enjoyed using and admired them for making. Then slowly over the years they keep becoming more intrusive with their ads and more invasive with their data/privacy practices. My first Roku didn't need any sort of account, you just plugged it in and went. Now you have to register an account and I'm sure they are tracking everything I watch. They blanket the home screen with ads and I'm convinced they have programmed their remote to enable the microphone when I press pause/play every rand(20) < 1 just to remind me I can talk to my remote. Just waiting for the day it's revealed the mics on the remotes are always hot and feeding into their advertising models.

[3abiton]

So you just sit there and take it? I don't see why people allow this behavior and treatment from companies, especially when there is a shift in direction. If people kee buying, they will never stop selling.

[kurts_mustache]

I know you are right, but there just aren't enough hours in the day to fight against every injustice or underhanded business tactic. Plus it takes a toll on my mental health to obsess about these things and I have to force myself not to do it. If there were a viable open source alternative that I could run, or better yet, a pre built version I could buy and plug into my TV then that's about the right level of righteous indignation I can muster for this particular case.

[andsoitis]

They had no recurring revenue and compete against Amazon and Google on hardware.

[wmf]

Roku takes a cut from apps that you use.