GoKawiilRoku has upgraded the home screen on its devices for the first time in 10 years with a new For You section and a great big ad. But if you don't like the changes, the great thing is you can make your TV or stick work more or less like it used to. And it only takes a couple of minutes.
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Customize For You and Quick Access to Work for You
The new Roku home screen at a New York City event. Ty Pendlebury/CNET
While Roku's changes have been really good for elevating content when you don't know what to watch, it's not as helpful when you want to watch a specific show. For instance, when I'm sitting down to watch Fallout, I may forget which service that show is on.
Roku has not been much help with picking up where I left off before, but I was excited about the possibility of seeing all the shows I was in the middle of. This is all thanks to the new Continue Watching section. Sadly, the new For You can't integrate this information (yet), though I do hold out hope it will do so in the future. But there are still things you can change that make a meaningful difference.
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I will preface this next part by saying I started with a fresh Roku Ultra, which I then logged into, but it appears it retrieved none of my watched data on the device. I like sci-fi and comedies. What I did receive was seemingly random suggestions for religious movies and Taylor Sheridan. Something was amiss.
If you're in the same boat and find the For You is not at all helpful, you have two options: remove individual suggestions or remove the whole section altogether.
Remove individual shows from For You
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