Key Takeaways
- Customize your ad settings on Roku by selecting personalized ads and choosing the types of ads you want to avoid.
- You can easily hide annoying ads on your Roku by simply highlighting it and pressing the * button on your remote.
- When you hide an ad, it is immediately replaced with a new ad, but there is a limit to the number of ads you can hide in a day.
Roku has become an essential part of many people’s daily lives. The streaming device is compatible with any TV. Smart TV TVs with Roku built-in make it easy to stream your favorite shows, movies, and events. Roku devices There are many different games available on the market, each offering a similar interface that fans are familiar with and can navigate easily.
But its interface, with its multiple boxes that highlight the apps users have downloaded and the channels they want to use, has ads. Like most companies trying to make money, advertising revenue helps pay the bills. Even if you pay for Roku, you might not want to be bothered by ads that pop up while you’re trying to use its product.
So how can you minimize the amount of ads your users see? What if you don’t like the content of the ads? We’ll explain in detail how to remove certain ads from your site. Roku TV and Roku devices.
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How to Change Ad Settings on a Roku TV
It’s not that hard to eliminate certain types.
First off, maybe you don’t hate all of the ads on your Roku TV. Some of them are annoying and you want to eliminate the possibility of them appearing on your homepage. There’s an easy way to customize the types of ads you receive.
From the Home menu, scroll all the way to the left and scroll down to Settings. In Settings, select Privacy, then select Advertising. Then select Sensitive Ad Content.
To change your ad settings, you need to select the box that says “Personalized ads.” Once you enable this, you can scroll through and select the ads you want to avoid. From there, you can select the categories of ads you want to see less of.
The options are:
- Alcohol, smoking and gambling
- Horror
- Adult/Sexual Content
- Medicines and supplements
- Politics
- Religion and Spirituality
- violence
Note: There is a disclaimer that these settings only apply to the Roku home screen and not to video ads or advertisements that appear in apps used on the Roku.
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How to Remove Ads on Roku TV
If you don’t like the ad, turn it off.
You might be scrolling through apps trying to decide which one to look at next, but as you look at each page, you come across a super annoying ad that you don’t want to see, so you can identify and remove it so it doesn’t appear on your screen again.
This is very easy, just pick up your Roku remote and move the arrow over the ad you don’t want to see.[OK]Clicking the button will open the ad, but all you have to do is highlight the ad and press the * button. Once you press the * button, a popup window will appear asking if you want to hide this ad. From this popup you can also manage your ad settings (which will reveal the menu we talked about in the previous section), or you can cancel and leave the ad as is.
When you hide this ad, a new one will appear almost instantly. Unfortunately, this does not remove all ads from your Roku home screen. However, you can remove the ones that are intrusive. Note that you can only hide a limited number of ads per day. This number resets after 24 hours. You also cannot remove ads that appear from the screensaver that appears after your Roku has been idle for a while. This is unavoidable unless you use your Roku constantly or turn off your TV.
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