Roku devices don't support IPv6 in 2023 and it's costing ISPs
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Roku devices don't support IPv6 in 2023 and it's costing ISPs
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Re: Roku devices don't support IPv6 in 2023 and it's costing ISPs
#2For a company who thrives on making cheap devices and charging for licenses/platform, this is almost a crime especially when supporting ipv6 on Linux based devices is much easier now. Wonder why don’t support it.
Re: Roku devices don't support IPv6 in 2023 and it's costing ISPs
#3What makes no sense in 2023 is to have an IPv6-only network. That is liable not to work. Someone will eventually bring some old device that won't be able to connect.
Re: Roku devices don't support IPv6 in 2023 and it's costing ISPs
#4My #1 step in troubleshooting any network issues is to disable IPv6. Step #2 is so rarely needed that I no longer remember what it was. IPv6 has been a failure, it is about time we openly admitted it. Why? Simple - it causes consumer pain and no consumer gain
Re: Roku devices don't support IPv6 in 2023 and it's costing ISPs
#5For a company who thrives on making cheap devices and charging for licenses/platform, this is almost a crime especially when supporting ipv6 on Linux based devices is much easier now. Wonder why don’t support it.
Are Rokus Linux based? I'd love to install an alternate distribution on one.
Re: Roku devices don't support IPv6 in 2023 and it's costing ISPs
#6For a company who thrives on making cheap devices and charging for licenses/platform, this is almost a crime especially when supporting ipv6 on Linux based devices is much easier now. Wonder why don’t support it.
> Wonder why don’t support it.
It's probably harder to tie devices in a single household together with IPv6 than with IPv4, or so they think.
They don't make (much) money on their devices, they make money on selling data collected and aggregated by their devices. Their "privacy" policy [0] is a hoot to read. "Whatever we can do, we will. If the laws of the country we collected the data in would interfere with that, we'll move the data and then do what we want." I mean, they grant themselves permission to nmap your network for other devices! Emphasis mine.
> We may receive information about the browsers and devices you use to access the Internet, including our services, such as device types and models, unique identifiers including advertising identifiers (e.g., for Roku Devices, the Advertising Identifier associated with that device), MAC address, IP address, operating system type and version, browser type and language, Wi-Fi network name and connection data, __and information about other devices connected to the same network__.
[0]: https://docs.roku.com/published/userprivacypolicy/en/us
Re: Roku devices don't support IPv6 in 2023 and it's costing ISPs
#7What makes no sense in 2023 is to have an IPv6-only network. That is liable not to work. Someone will eventually bring some old device that won't be able to connect.
Did you mean "IPv6-only network"?
Re: Roku devices don't support IPv6 in 2023 and it's costing ISPs
#8For a company who thrives on making cheap devices and charging for licenses/platform, this is almost a crime especially when supporting ipv6 on Linux based devices is much easier now. Wonder why don’t support it.
Are Rokus Linux based? I'd love to install an alternate distribution on one.
From Wikipedia:
> The Roku box runs a custom Linux distribution called Roku OS.
Looks like yes.
Re: Roku devices don't support IPv6 in 2023 and it's costing ISPs
#9I really hate Roku as a product, ads on the home screen and the remote(??) of something I paid for? No thanks. Though, I will concede it is cool to load mostly "unapproved" apps if the developer shares the app ID. (Certain x-rated sites liked to advertise they have a Roku app, something that would never make its way to most other TV boxes)
Re: Roku devices don't support IPv6 in 2023 and it's costing ISPs
#10My #1 step in troubleshooting any network issues is to disable IPv6. Step #2 is so rarely needed that I no longer remember what it was. IPv6 has been a failure, it is about time we openly admitted it. Why? Simple - it causes consumer pain and no consumer gain
You can’t just change the size of an IPv4 address without creating a whole new thing.