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Google announces April 2024 shutdown date for Google Podcasts (arstechnica.com)
submitted 11 months ago by flop_leash_973 to c/technology
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Time to get out of Google Podcasts for anyone that is still using the service.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Hoo BOY does Roku have ads! When I installed PiHole on my network and used it as my local DNS, the TOP blocked domain was "scribe.roku.com". It was calling home like 5000 times a day. We were thinking every single remote push maybe.

Blocking those domains made the entire interface speed up drastically, and got rid of the giant box ads on the side as well. (It's just a big empty frame now lol).

Rokus are nice and cheap if you can mitigate their rampant data harvesting.