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Odd that Roku singles out the 0.5% of users affected within the state of Maine. Must be related to some sort of Maine data breach law? I didn't dig too deeply, but not seeing anything explicitly called out in their statutes [0].
[0] https://legislature.maine.gov/legis/statutes/10/title10sec13...
The article cites these two sources[1][2] which say
> Unauthorized individuals using account credentials believed to have been obtained from third-party source(s) were used to access individual customer accounts
[1] https://apps.web.maine.gov/online/aeviewer/ME/40/e9cc298b-37...
[2] https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/Template%20Notification%203-...
This is absolutely glorious. Days after forcing it's users into mandatory arbitrations this comes out. Would be awesome if holding someone's TV hostage until they agree to not sue you was illegal.
Related: Ask HN: Fighting back against Roku's forced arbitration? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39503941 (2024-02-25)
It's related as in they are both things about Roku but it's too early to tell if these two events are actually related in some more meaningful way.
One after the other, can we all assume now that a data breach for any company is not an "if" anymore, just a "when"?
Card won’t be charged during the free trial? Don’t need another copy out there!
It could also be targeted credential stuffing given recent events. An interesting tactic to create problems for a company.
I'm not saying Roku is a good company, but this isn't really a data breach but poor credential management by customers.
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> We hold the power in that we elect the public officials. Very optimistic attitude!
Is it? Just a plain fact. At least in the US
For those who don't know, just a week or so ago Roku amended the arbitration clause of their terms of service and soft-bricked every Roku in the US until you Agreed to the new terms. This even extended to TVs from other brands with Roku software, making the TV non-functional even as a dumb display since the Roku software controls input selection AND would ignore any HDMI-CEC commands. I guess we know why now. There i…
My Roku-enabled TV used to bootloop whenever I blocked it from fetching screensaver ads. Support was happy to help. First step: (re)connect to the internet. Second step: disable any network ad blocking. Hmmmmm. People rolled their eyes when I suggested that this was intentional, but these recent revelations strongly suggest that Roku is very comfortable exploiting the hell out of dark patterns. If we don't enact stro…
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Is it? Just a plain fact. At least in the US
I don't know what you mean by "fact", but your vote certainly holds less proportional power to influence a politician than that of 1/(population of the us). Politicians straight-up don't care about your opinion unless you can show up as a meaningful horde, and judging by the reaction to the Israeli invasion of Palestine that doesn't hold much water either.
For those who don't know, just a week or so ago Roku amended the arbitration clause of their terms of service and soft-bricked every Roku in the US until you Agreed to the new terms. This even extended to TVs from other brands with Roku software, making the TV non-functional even as a dumb display since the Roku software controls input selection AND would ignore any HDMI-CEC commands. I guess we know why now. There i…
My Roku-enabled TV used to bootloop whenever I blocked it from fetching screensaver ads. Support was happy to help. First step: (re)connect to the internet. Second step: disable any network ad blocking. Hmmmmm. People rolled their eyes when I suggested that this was intentional, but these recent revelations strongly suggest that Roku is very comfortable exploiting the hell out of dark patterns. If we don't enact stro…
Don't misunderstand me: it's 100% atrocious that any device bootloops if some ad network 403s, but on the spectrum of "spit into one hand..." and nginx in the other ...