roku remote app showing ads now

01189998819991197253 , 5 months ago

Are you on Android?

If so: RoMote is pretty good. Here's the releases page for the APK. It's also F-Droid.

EmoDuck , 5 months ago

My dog tore up the remote so we were forced to use the roku app to control the tv.

Force your dog to watch ads as a punishment

mreiner , 5 months ago

I’m not getting this, at least not yet.

Maybe it’s because I run Pi-hole; I know it filters out a TON of Roku’s telemetry and other traffic. Might be worth setting up Pi-hole on your network and see if stuff like that goes away?

aldalire OP , 5 months ago

How did you set your roku to use your pihole? I have no router access so i have to change each client’s dns. Roku doesnt allow changing their dns

567PrimeMover , 5 months ago

It requires your pihole to act as DHCP server as well. From what I can tell, Roku is hard-coded to use whatever address is handed out. It's easily responsible for 60% of the blocked domains on my pihole.

If you don't have admin access to the ISP router, your only recourse is to put a consumer router behind it (You'd just hook up the consumer router's internet port to one of the LAN ports on the ISP router) and connect all of your devices to that. That way you can disable the DHCP server on the router and enable it on the pihole.

InFerNo , 5 months ago

Can't you just tell your current dhcp to use the pihole as dns? That's how I set it up.

567PrimeMover , 5 months ago

My router, (a TP-Link, can't remember the exact model) will still list itself in the list of nameservers even if I just specify the pihole. Since I can't seem to find anywhere in the router's interface to turn that behavior off, I've resorted to using the pihole as DHCP as well.

But yeah, usually you can just use whatever DHCP server you have already

BoisZoi , 5 months ago

I mean... you bought a Roku.

Of all the streaming devices you can purchase, I'd argue Roku is the most privacy invasive: https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/roku-streaming-sticks/

aldalire OP , 5 months ago

Yes I am aware. I mainly use the Jellyfin app on it. I have a PiHole but I unfortunately can’t change the DHCP/DNS settings on my router (i have no admin access to it) so i have to rely change the DNS for every client on my home. But unfortunately Roku does not allow for changing their DNS server.

I have heard about putting my roku on another submet but i don’t know how to do this. Any thoughts 🤔

1hitsong , 5 months ago

I mainly use the Jellyfin app on it.

Hope it's working well for ya'!

aldalire OP , 5 months ago

Yes! I noticed the video player UI changed, it looks pretty clean. Are you a Jellyfin developer? If so, I love you.

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/532fa53d-6f27-4af0-9561-04d83554bb84.jpeg

1hitsong , 5 months ago

Are you a Jellyfin developer?

I am. Funny enough, I'm the one who made the new video player OSD 🤘

If so, I love you.

Oh. Well, this is awkward. I think of you more as a friend...

bane_killgrind , 5 months ago

It's platonic, you never hugged a coworker before?