
You can choose to buy a product that doesn’t inject advertising on top of content.

Advertising is the price you pay when you don’t pay the price at the register. Still, we buy the $25 sticks en masse and the inexpensive televisions in droves. And ignore for the moment the fact that Roku basically is now an advertising company that also sells hardware and licenses out its operating system to other manufacturers. Phil Nickinson/Digital Trends Ads on ads on adsįorget for the moment that an NFL broadcast is, itself, full of advertisements in the stadium, on the field, on the screen, and from the broadcasters’ mouths. Roku tells Digital Trends that whatever caused the ad to appear - whether it was an OS-level thing or a device-specific thing - has “been resolved.” Running an ad-blocker at the network level can block ads in all sorts of places, like on the Roku Home Screen. It’s a bit amusing to see folks all up in arms over an ad for Sleep Number beds appearing on a Roku TV manufactured by Sharp, which made the rounds on the /r/cordcutters subreddit during a recent NFL playoff game. I did, I think, and I got a reply from support and yes I am using AdGuard Extra & all the other extensions from within AdGuard except the AdGuard Browser Assistant which is installed Microsoft Edge.

I started using Malwarebytes Browser Guard again to block the YouTube ads et cetera, so there is a chance that AdGuard might not be working at times without me realizing it because those ads could be blocked by Malwarebytes Browser Guard instead now I would have to once again disable it to see. Maybe the new Adguard is taking longer than usual to activate & even after activating, it will not filter any programs that were open before it finished activating all of its services. Click to expand.I did, I think, and I got a reply from support and yes I am using AdGuard Extra & all the other extensions from within AdGuard except the AdGuard Browser Assistant which is installed Microsoft Edge.īefore support replied, I finally got it to work by once again by checking for filter updates & program updates like I had already tried several times before, after doing that, exiting any open programs, and then opening them again it would work.Īlso, when the computer starts up, I have to wait because if I open Microsoft Edge too soon, Adguard filtering will not work, unless I exit Microsoft Edge & open it again.
