[pavon]

On my Roku the ads aren't just off to the side. When I go to the home screen there are now "recommended" shows above and below my channels, and they are initially selected, so I have to scroll down past them to get to my actual channels.

[saratogacx]

Every one of those sections can be trivially turned off in the settings. Mine just have the list of apps I installed on my device.

[hydrogen7800]

Yes, which you have to do repeatedly after every software update when they change your settings.