Ugh. Roku was one of the platforms with fewer ads.
- Roku will be adding more ads to the home screens of its devices and TVs in the near future.
- The ads will be interactive and ‘shoppable’ and will cover a range of industries, including restaurants and cars.
- Roku already has a significant amount of ads on its home screen, and it is unclear if users will be able to change their preferences for the new ads.
Apple TV boxes have no ads.
I know everyone here hates Apple, but, there it is.
Technically that Home Screen can display an app’s featured content. And Apple and other apps often use that space to promote new shows. But you can turn off TV+ promos and or move apps out of that region.
Roku actually installs physical ads onto its damn remotes. I have remotes that promote streaming services that don’t even exist anymore.
They push apple TV+ so hard. The home screen, aside from recently watched, is one big ATV+ ad.
You can turn that off pretty easily. The AppleTV+ app has the ability to configure how it uses that little quick look space. You can set it to only display your “up next” content.
Any apps in that dock region can show featured content when they are highlighted by the user. Any app can do that, not just Apple’s. Quite a few third party apps use that space to show featured or watchlist content.
Where should I look in the settings?
Settings > Apps > TV
Set Home Screen to “Up Next”
There is a bunch of interesting things hidden under the App settings.
I already had that set, thanks.
The apple TV is much worse now that apple has ATV+ than before it had that. :( still better than any other platform, i suppose.