Roku's home screen menu is like dealing with a fever dream. All the menu options are on the left side, in a short, squat box, while a flood of apps is listed on the right, followed by advertisements.

Roku gathers a wide range of information from your device, including search history, voice inputs, channel usage, ad interactions, and personal preferences, and it shares some of this data with ...

Roku has plans to put video ads on the home screen, the company confirmed in a recent earnings call. Ads have become a huge part of virtually every smart TV platform at this point, but how they show ...

Roku has sunk to a new low in the streaming wars, with an experimental ad format that blocks your home screen behind an auto-playing video ad. Roku isn’t alone in seeing what kinds of advertising ...

Roku CEO Anthony Wood disclosed plans to introduce video ads to the Roku OS home screen. The news highlights Roku’s growing focus on advertising and an alarming trend in the streaming industry that ...

Roku's home screen has become one of the few bastions of peace and quiet on our screens as other streamers pack their apps with video ads, but the free ride will soon come to an end. Roku recently ...

Karandeep Singh Oberoi is a Durham College Journalism and Mass Media graduate who joined the Android Police team in April 2024, after serving as a full-time News Writer at Canadian publication ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This article explains how to turn off the narrator on a Roku streaming device or TV. You can use a remote shortcut or disable the ...

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Roku sells itself as a simple streaming stick that turns any screen into a portal for Netflix, YouTube and countless other apps, but the hardware does not suddenly become useless the moment your Wi‑Fi ...

It'll be interesting to see just how many of these 2026 Roku streaming predictions end up coming true.