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Kaycee Hill

Your Roku TV is watching you — 3 settings to change right now

A Roku remote in hand in front of a TV with the Roku home page.

Roku knows your guilty pleasures. Every show, every search, every channel you've ever opened has been collected, stored, and used to build an ad profile of you.

Every time you hit play, Roku is quietly logging what you watch, how long you watch it, and which ads you interact with, then sharing that data with third-party advertisers. That's the default setting on every Roku device, and most people have no idea it's happening.

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