The company that owns Fox News is buying Roku for $22B. Roku owners are eyeing the exits (foxcorporation.com)
Roku's whole appeal was being service-agnostic hardware. Now a content company owns the platform, the home screen, and the ad inventory, and longtime users are already describing the creepy cross-device popups that hinted at where this goes.
A throwaway detail that landed: Roku's Walmart security cameras are rebranded Wyze units. The advice in the thread was to migrate off both the cameras and the boxes before the integration tightens.
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