{"id":33368,"date":"2024-05-02T03:02:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T07:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=33368"},"modified":"2024-05-02T03:05:18","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T07:05:18","slug":"roku-os-home-screen-is-getting-video-ads-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=33368","title":{"rendered":"Roku OS home screen is getting video ads for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2024\/04\/roku-ad-push-continues-with-plans-to-put-video-ads-in-os-home-screen\/?utm_brand=arstechnica&amp;utm_social-type=owned&amp;utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"hoverZoomLink alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/roku-800x419-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"321\" height=\"168\"><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile, Roku keeps making more money.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2024\/04\/roku-ad-push-continues-with-plans-to-put-video-ads-in-os-home-screen\/\">Roku OS home screen is getting video ads for the first time<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>better not have ads while I&#8217;m watching anything, esp youtube and Plex.  do not interrupt my vierwing ffs!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow\/\" target=\"_blank\">enshitification<\/a> &#8211; got the idea from <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/pluralistic.net\/2023\/01\/21\/potemkin-ai\/#hey-guys\" target=\"_blank\">cory doctorow<\/a> (well, not him to me directly, but me reading his posts, and this long-term <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/bbs.boingboing.net\/t\/enshittification-the-thread\/250571\/423\" target=\"_blank\">thread on BoingBoing<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>TIL &#8211; can&#8217;t put some (all?) emojis into a posting; I had 2 (mad face and really mad face), but couldn&#8217;t post, got error &#8220;could not post into database&#8221; or sumesuch.  but I think I have doesn simple things before emojis?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meanwhile, Roku keeps making more money. Source: Roku OS home screen is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33368"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33374,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33368\/revisions\/33374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}