Today we hooked up a new Roku, out of the box, installed Pandora, opened it for the first time and our account loaded automatically. No login, no email, no activation code, nothing. Our Pandora account logged in and ready to go. To me this clearly illustrated Pandora is using some token or wifi, or linked account authorization behind the scenes to authenticate the user. And seems VERY likely the culprit of thousands of us having mystery "listeners" using our accounts without our knowledge. This would also explain why Pandora is actively resisting non-stop requests to provide user access to control authorized devices on their accounts.
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