‘It’s going to be about 100,000 advertisers.‘
  • notannpc@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    3 months ago

    Man it must be rough out there for regular people that put up with that kind of bullshit.

  • IphtashuFitz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    3 months ago

    I still use a Roku that was gifted to me, but only thanks to also having a pihole. The amount of logging & ads it blocks on the Roku is insane. If that ever stopped working I would ditch the Roku in a heartbeat.

  • very_well_lost@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    3 months ago

    I’ll be honest… advertising is the one industry I wouldn’t be sad to see get completely cannibalized by AI.

    • muusemuuse@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      Truth. Before there was at least some sort of pressure on the ad industry to incentivize our attention. They had to make it interesting or funny.

      Now, it’s a far less consensual arrangement. “I will hold your Skinner box hostage until you listen to me!”

      UBo, pinchflat, SponsorBlock, jellyfin, WireGuard, Apple shortcuts for auto connect and activation when I get in my car, and now I get my stories while I’m driving and those obnoxious vultures can fuck right off.

      If Adblock blocking goes away, so will I. This is already more work than I feel like putting into it and the quality of online content has really gone downhill. The enshittification is so extreme now that it’s just not worth paying for things anymore.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
    451·
    3 months ago

    AI generated ads

    It doesn’t happen a lot that headlines make me vomit a little in my mouth but this one did

  • paraphrand@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    3 months ago

    “This company is too cheap to pay someone for a proper advertisement.”

    Using AI like this seems like a counter productive way to build brand awareness.

    • Itsamelemmy@lemmy.zipEnglish
      7·
      3 months ago

      Kinda. I recently got a shield pro to replace my roku. Customization, and no ads are nice, but for what it cost, what a fucking piece of shit. Hard freezee that require unplugging is the main issue, but it also doesn’t respond to remote presses frequently on start up. Takes 30+ seconds sometimes before the remote works.

      For more than double the cost it shoukd blow the roku ultra away in every sense. And I shouldn’t have to adb hack it to install a custom launcher.

      • wshrader@lemmy.todayEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        The ONN devices from Walmart work near-flawless, even the $14 stick. I would recommend starting there.

      • whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        I did the same replaced a Roku device with a shield when Roku started doing startup ads. Seems to work fine then won’t respond to remote and needs a reboot, some weird stuff with the VPN too. Should have probably just got a mini form PC instead.

      • comador @lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        3 months ago

        Thank you for this. I was setting up to buy an nvidia shield to replace my roku ultras.

        FWIW, I have so far tried:

        • Onn Google TV 4K: Returned it, freezes constantly.

        • Jailbroken AMZ fire stick w/ LineageOS. Buffering issues and wireless issues in general. I still use it, but not my favorite.

        So for now it seems my next purchase will be a TiVo Stream 4k android device or a jailbroken fire tv cube and if that fails, I may just have to DIY an android Pi system lol.

      • brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        That’s been my experience too. I had heard so much good about it, but it feels so janky.

        I really wish there was a normal minipc option with a good remote controlled UI. But they all have such terrible interfaces or if it’s running Linux, weird limitations by streaming vendors who lock Linux to 1080p because they are afraid of piracy, as if that actually prevents anything at all.

        I can’t stand how normalized these invasive ads have become. I have a child at home and she is too young to know how intrusive ads are. I don’t want my 7 year old being shown ads for content that they aren’t mature enough for.

    • klu9@piefed.socialEnglish
      10·
      3 months ago

      My TV (dumb but attached to a Roku Express) died last month and since then I’ve been watching on computer + Zen Browser + uBlock Origin, with zero ads.

      And noticing that I don’t see a single TV for sale in nearby shops that is not a (usually Roku) smart TV, i.e. data surveillance capitalist tool.

      • muusemuuse@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        3 months ago

        The funny thing is you can just use an external box and never connect your tv to the internet at all. Let it collect all the data it wants. It’s not like it can tell anybody.

        • foggenbooty@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          3 months ago

          It may not be that way for much longer. Take a look at Amazon Sidewalk. They’re using low power, long range mesh technology so Ring Doorbells and Echos can communicate without access to the internet. That may not sound like a big deal, but the potential is huge.

          If companies like Amazon/Google are able to create a “side network” they could use it to provide low bandwidth backhaul for other companies that want to get telemetry from their airgapped devices.

          So, for example, you get a new Roku smart TV and don’t connect it to your Wi-Fi, but your neighbour has a Ring doorbell so it just uses that.

          Mesh tech is awesome, and so is tech in general, but we are so slow at regulating it. This stuff needs to be opt in at the absolute minimum.

          • muusemuuse@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            1·
            3 months ago

            While that is concerning, it’s not something that would scale well. Mesh networks don’t have the bandwidth for all the telemetry data from tons of users all at once. It wouldn’t work unless they cut back on the amount of data they wanted to get and they will never be asking for less data.

            • foggenbooty@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              3 months ago

              The data would have to be scaled back, no doubt about that. Right now they collect everything under the sun because they can. Remember, this would be data they otherwise wouldn’t get at all.

              If I were to predict how it would work I would say they would continue to send back full fidelity data over Wi-Fi the same as today, but mesh would be used as a fallback if nothing is available. That data could be bundled to once a day, or week or whatever they decide makes sense and would only include summary information like, how much time spent on each channel per day, SSIDs scanned in the area, etc.

        • klu9@piefed.socialEnglish
          2·
          3 months ago

          Video playback smooth in Zen but jerky in Firefox. Haven’t tried in Librewolf or Firedragon.

            • klu9@piefed.socialEnglish
              1·
              3 months ago

              Linux: Yes, Linux Mint Xfce 22.1

              Codecs: Yes, mint-meta-codecs.

              Everything seems fine in Zen, Falkon, FreeTube, SMPlayer, VLC etc.

              But the one time I tried watching video in Firefox recently, it was jerky.

              • foggenbooty@lemmy.worldEnglish
                2·
                3 months ago

                A quick way to test would be installing the Flatpak version of FF. As far as I know it should contain everything you need in one go, plus super easy to uninstall.

      • TachyonTele@piefed.socialEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        I’m fearing when my tv finally dies. It’s a 15 year old 75", and I know i won’t have the money for a new one when the time comes. Especially not enough to shop around for a dumb tv the same size.

    • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.mlEnglish
      31·
      3 months ago

      That’s why I’m never letting your access the internet, Roku.
      You’re the cheapest TV I could find to use as a monitor
      Just stay in your line, or else
      Also I can’t root Roku 12 ?
      What in the absolute bullshit is that ?
      Not root on my own fucking TV ?
      Someone needs to 9/11 that entire company !!

  • lemmyknow@lemmy.todayEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    This just made me realise… with AI-generated videos, ads could be tailor-made for you. Could even feature you on it.