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Re:Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on wha... by nemomarx on Thursday December 18, 2025 @05:50PM (#46319923)
I don't think they mean that kinda streamer - the idea is the roku tv can tell you're watching an ad even if it's on amazon prime, apple tv, youtube, twitch, wherever, and associate the ad watching with your roku account to potentially sell that data somehow?

That way they aren't cut out of the loop by you using a different service to watch something and still have a 'cut'.

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Re:Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on wha... by nitwit005 on Thursday December 18, 2025 @06:01PM (#46320019)
It'd make sense if they're using streamer in a different sense than I'm used to. I see that's at the bottom of the definitions Google will produce.
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Re:Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on wha... by nemomarx on Thursday December 18, 2025 @06:19PM (#46320184)
Yeah I think they mean "user of a streaming service" here, which would more conventionally be user or watcher or so on.
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