It's Time To Dump Roku
The Fox deal will only make Roku worse.
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I'm done with Roku. I was already on the fence after seeing how the company transformed from being a simple set-top box provider to a money-making machine driven by ad sales and data collection. I've been wary of its right-wing leadership for years, especially after Roku added Alex Jones' conspiracy-riddled Infowars channel after it was blocked by YouTube, Apple, Twitter and Facebook (Roku later reversed course after users complained). And I've grown tired of Roku's simplistic OS, which still can't let you easily jump between different apps. Fox's $22 billion acquisition of Roku is the last straw for me.
If the deal is approved (and it likely will, given the Trump administration's lax regulatory attitude around conservative media), it will make Fox a far bigger player in the streaming world. Roku claims its ad-supported Roku Channel reaches 145 million people,...
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