Roku just essentially bricked my Ultra player because it's trying to force me to accept some new Dispute Resolution Terms. Something about agreeing not to participate in a class action lawsuit against them.

97% don’t read that.
So they probably figured they could slip it in there.

I found the instructions to opt out here, in paragraph L. You have 30 days upon receipt of the notice on your device to mail Roku a letter (it's invalid via e-mail) opting out.

File a class action lawsuit for that!

It’s been probably a year since I last used my Roku. Only things it’s best at now are Vudu and Movies Anywhere.

If the Stop the FOMO guy's suspicion is correct, this was all about Roku trying to cover their butts after a user data breach.



Here's an article about the breach, that was posted over at AVS Forum.

Oh, wow. That sucks.

Holy crap if they actually do this, all my rokus go in the trash. Keep in mind this is only a patent request but jeez.

https://www.lowpass.cc/p/roku-hdmi-ad-insertion-patent

^^ I get that would be annoying and I wouldn't want it either, but note that could only work for "Roku TVs", not the Roku box devices.

I wouldn't be surprised if someday they start showing ads instead of the screensaver on the devices, though.

And I thought it wasn't possible to hate Roku more.

This is probably just a sign of what all companies will be doing before long. Some streaming services will pop up ads when you pause a show now. Walmart bought Vizio just so they could sell advertising on Vizio TVs.

Right, the purge in my household would be more on principle. Plus I have a Roku TV. Although I guess I can disconnect it from the internet and use an external streaming box if it comes to that.

This is for Roku TVs not separate Roku devices connected to a TV.

Roku got hacked. Over 570K accounts compromised. Probably should change your passwords.

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If bad actors used stolen passwords from another account then Roku wasn't hacked, unless I just don't understand the definition of being hacked.

Then the first response to this tweet is someone who claims they got this email but used a unique password...

Yeah, their response is "our own investigation show's we're not at fault, and instead it was likely credentials stolen from another source." In other words, they don't have evidence one way or another.

On the other hand, they changed their dispute resolution terms on March 17, 10 days after they were alerted to the strange activity, and a month before they publicly notify their customers. It seems like they at least for a while thought they had royally fucked up and were wanting to cover their asses by having almost all users agree to the new terms before telling anyone. See this post RocShemp made a month ago:

Companies know their customer data is extremely valuable but they don't want to pay the expense for serious IT maintenance and security. I've grown increasingly numb given how many prominent national companies have been hacked.

Roku could soon patent tech that can sense when content is paused—and run ads https://www.marketingbrew.com/storie...ed-and-run-ads

A bunch of streaming services are having 30 days free btwn now and Sept 10 if you get them on the roku app

Seems like Roku TVs automatically turned on "motion smoothing" with no option to turn it off:

https://community.roku.com/t5/Discus...re/td-p/974654

They say "oh it's not motion smoothing, it's a reduction in judder" then leave it at that, no explanation otherwise, but people are still reporting no option to turn it off.

https://www.tomsguide.com/tvs/roku-t...-how-to-fix-it

I don't think I'll ever buy a roku TV again, even at dirt cheap. Ah well.

Yeah... when TV shopping 'what OS does it run on' has become a major consideration. I will never buy a TV running Roku's OS (nor own a Roku device).

Yeah, I've seen enough issues with them over the years to avoid them. I have one of their devices but will probably switch off after it stops working (which admitting may be a while).

Have had no reason to use my Roku ever since they dumped private channels.

"HOLY GOD. FUCK." PRAISE BE FOR OldBoy

https://tvline.com/news/dream-on-hbo...es-1235345308/

This is huge.
I wonder if any of it is deleted the way The Drew Carey show got chopped up