Roku Issues a Mandatory Terms of Service Update or You Can't Use Your Roku

Re:Roku Issues a Mandatory Terms of Service Update or You Ca... by aurareturn on Monday March 04, 2024 @09:53PM (#39598935)

People who use Roku, why do you use it instead of something like Google Stick, Amazon Firestick, Apple TV, or the built in smart function of your TV?

I never understood why it was a $60 billion stock when what they make is close to a commodity and worse, all TVs now come with some smart function as standard.

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Re:Roku Issues a Mandatory Terms of Service Update or You Ca... by licheness on Monday March 04, 2024 @10:07PM (#39599025)

Price and convenience. I don't like Amazon Firestick or Google Stick. Apple is nice. Also I can add Pi-Hole and limit a lot of the Roku data mining that happens.

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Re:Roku Issues a Mandatory Terms of Service Update or You Ca... by mytailorisrich on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @02:41AM (#39600443)

I bought one to turn an old monitor into a 'TV' to watch Netflix, Youtube, Amazon in one of the bedroom.

Cheap and convenient.

At the moment their market cap is $9B, which is still quite high, IMHO. They just spiked during Covid like everything else that was perceived as lockdown/WFH friendly. Of course it was all a bubble.

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