You can avoid screensaver ads by enabling the Backdrops feature on Roku, which lets you select a gallery of images. For most users, including myself, this ad was a trailer for Disney's Moana 2.

Roku already places ads on the homescreen and in its screensaver, but autoplaying ads as soon as the TV is turned on is new, and rather aggressive behavior. In late 2023, Amazon was also found to ...