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After luring customers with low prices, Amazon stuffs Fire TVs with ads (arstechnica.com)

submitted 10 months ago by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] guiguinofake@sh.itjust.works 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Roku tvs already do that, you even need to put in a credit card number for it to work.

[–] PlungeButter@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You can choose not to connect a Roku TV to the Internet during the initial setup, and you just get access to live TV and the HDMI inputs with (obviously) no streaming channels or updates. It works fine as a dumb TV.

And the credit card thing? That's after you create your account on their website, you can just close the browser window. Or click the button saying "skip" or "later" or whatever it is.

[–] guiguinofake@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Was helping family with setting it up, I guess I didn't see that

[–] niucllos@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago

They don't make it obvious at all, in fact they do their best to seem like you can't

[–] ares35@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago

does this link to make an account without a payment method not work anymore?
https://my.roku.com/signup/nocc