sLemmy
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
nanoUFO@sh.itjust.worksM to Games@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 1 year ago

Roku wants to patent the ability to display ads when consoles connected to its TVs are paused

www.videogameschronicle.com

external-link
message-square
20
fedilink
192
external-link

Roku wants to patent the ability to display ads when consoles connected to its TVs are paused

www.videogameschronicle.com

nanoUFO@sh.itjust.worksM to Games@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 1 year ago
message-square
20
fedilink
Roku wants to patent the ability to display ads when consoles connected to its TVs are paused | VGC
www.videogameschronicle.com
external-link
The patent will check HDMI devices for inactivity and override the feed…
alert-triangle
You must log in or register to comment.
  • maquise@ttrpg.network
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    78
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    Yes, patent it. Then nobody else can do it!

    • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      32
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      Nah, they’ll sell the licensing rights for others to do it.

    • dan1101@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      12
      ·
      1 year ago

      Yeah that’s best case scenario at this point. But after they forced users to agree to a new agreement with their remote control or no longer be able to use their Roku/TV I sort of doubt they have our best interests in mind.

    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      1 year ago

      Suddenly lifetime patents seem not so bad

  • MrFappy@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    40
    ·
    1 year ago

    So good of Roku to increase power savings by looking to inspire gamers to turn their tvs off when they pause, even if just to go to the bathroom.

    • ours@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      13
      ·
      1 year ago

      And good of them to patent such a sleezy move.

  • Fades@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    36
    ·
    1 year ago

    ✨ enshittification ✨

  • spankinspinach@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    32
    ·
    1 year ago

    This is at the point where just not displaying ads at every corner is becoming a viable business plan

  • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    31
    ·
    1 year ago

    whew, thanks roku! for a awhile there i thought i might use one of your products. no longer a thought.

    • Refurbished Refurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      9
      ·
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      The forced arbitration EULA, ads on the homescreen, and prevention of installing your own apps didn’t already convince you?

    • starman2112@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      1 year ago

      They sell their TVs at a loss because they anticipate making money back via advertising, so don’t feel bad about buying a cheap 4k TV. It literally costs them money!*

      *As long as you don’t connect it to the internet for some dumb reason

  • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    20
    ·
    1 year ago

    Have to squeeze every possible fraction of a cent of potential revenue out. How else are you supposed to maintain infinite growth?

  • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    15
    ·
    1 year ago

    Not only should this be illegal, some of the underlying efforts should put people in jail.

  • NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    9
    ·
    1 year ago

    Damn dude, Roku blows now

    • Flamangoman@lemmy.studio
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      1 year ago

      Hot garbage

  • Taleya@aussie.zone
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    8
    ·
    1 year ago

    I’m old enough that if my tv starts playing shit when it’s paused i will shoot it

  • penquin@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    7
    arrow-down
    3
    ·
    1 year ago

    I honestly thought that not many people really cared for Roku anyway. I’ve never a Roku device and never will now.

  • inlandempire@jlai.lu
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    This wouldn’t fit with the gdpr, right?

    Or maybe it’s completely unrelated idk

    • tb_@lemmy.worldB
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      1 year ago

      That depends on how Roku gathers data. GDPR has, to my knowledge, nothing to do with the ways in which ads are shown. Just how the data on those ads is collected.

  • pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    “UHm aKTuaLLy ItV hUB iS nOw ItVx🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓”

Games@sh.itjust.works

games@sh.itjust.works

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !games@sh.itjust.works

Video game news oriented community. No NanoUFO is not a bot :)

Posts.

  1. News oriented content (general reviews, previews or retrospectives allowed).
  2. Broad discussion posts (preferably not only about a specific game).
  3. No humor/memes etc…
  4. No affiliate links
  5. No advertising.
  6. No clickbait, editorialized, sensational titles. State the game in question in the title. No all caps.
  7. No self promotion.
  8. No duplicate posts, newer post will be deleted unless there is more discussion in one of the posts.
  9. No politics.

Comments.

  1. No personal attacks.
  2. Obey instance rules.
  3. No low effort comments(one or two words, emoji etc…)
  4. Please use spoiler tags for spoilers.

My goal is just to have a community where people can go and see what new game news is out for the day and comment on it.

Other communities:

Beehaw.org gaming

Lemmy.ml gaming

lemmy.ca pcgaming

Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 539 users / day
  • 2.04K users / week
  • 5.05K users / month
  • 12.9K users / 6 months
  • 1 local subscriber
  • 18.9K subscribers
  • 13.3K Posts
  • 97.1K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works
  • BE: 0.19.5
  • Modlog
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org