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Personally I think this was a bad decision on Roku's part. Why do you advertise streaming channels in your commercials with channel numbers that no longer exist? It's an oxymoron. Did you at least get opinions from the community before incorporating this. I'm sure with technology these days you could have offered us the option of showing/not showing the channel numbers. Now that's a better idea! Obviously you've jumped on the band wagon to have A.I. be in charge of our lives. Every time I turn on my TV now, the channels randomly relocate themselves to different spots on my channel guide. I can promise you that my next TV will 'NOT' be a Smart TV. First the 'V-chip' and now this garbage. Try giving your community more options/choices, rather than force your biased opinions on us, as a means to control our actions, thoughts, etc.