How to Skip or Block crackle ads on Roku?

Are you Roku lover and facing this crackle ads in Roku home screen? Don’t worry, here are some guides that helps you to block crackle ads. If you follow this steps then you can achieve it.

Roku also earns revenue with advertisement so definitely some ads get throws on the Roku home screen.  According to Roku Privacy policy.

We also collect usage data such as your search history…search results, content and advertisements you select and view, including through use of automatic content recognition technology…and content settings and preferences, channels you add and view, including time and duration in the channels, and other usage statistics.

Recently lot of people need to block or skip this and they raise the question , “how to skip crackle ads on Roku?”. 

Best Ways To Skip Crackle Ads on Roku:

METHOD 1:

Roku policy States that “it collects data from your search history which you set in content settings and preference”. That means you can restrict or block the Ads in Setting itself.

STEP 1: 

Go to “Settings” in Roku Home Screen.

STEP 2:

Select “Privacy’ and then select “Advertising”.

STEP 3:

Check “Limit Ad Tracking” Option.

STEP 4:

Restart your Roku Device.

This will help you to block the ads by reading your buffer. It is not 100 percent this will block all the ads instead you can able to get generic ads.

METHOD 2:

By blocking certain domain in the router can able to block this ads in your home Screen. For that follow below steps.

STEP 1: 

Open Router-R64

STEP 2: 

Go to “Advanced” tab.

STEP 3:

Select “Security‘  and then also Go to “Block Sites”  .

STEP 4:

Now Here you will have a set of option “Block sites containing these keywords or domain name”.

STEP 5:

Under that block the sites named “cloudservices.roku.com”, “doubleclick.net” by checking the box.

This will Helps you to achieve blocking of ads. Even after you get advertisements then Restart your Roku device and check once again. This ads may appear due to DNS cache.

NOTE: doubleclick.net this will block the Advertisements in YouTube. cloudservices.roku.com will stop the ads on the Roku menu.

METHOD 3:

You can skip the Advertisement by a tactic. The Ads which comes in between watching movies, TV Shows or any other shows. During that time,

Step 1: Click on pop out button.

Step 2: Now close the newly opened screen.

Now you can able to watch the continuity of your show.

METHOD 4:

You can use good Ad-block Application to you device. That will block this crackle ads.( May be workout for some times)

METHOD 5:

Better you get subscription for some penny this will definitely solve your ads problem.

Final Words:

The tips which is shared may help for Most device and may not be for some. If you strictly needs to eliminate the ads better go for Upgrade and Subscription option that will help you most.