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People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads (arstechnica.com)

submitted 3 days ago by punkibas@lemmy.zip to c/technology@lemmy.world

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“This is getting ridiculous and I'm about to just toss the whole thing and move back to Google,” one Redditor said of the “full-volume” ads for Alexa+ on their Echo Show.

Oh sweet summer child, Google is NOT going to be any better at this. That will just be changing one corporate evil for another.

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[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Don't understand your downvotes, but probably owners of such bugs :-)

[–] Anomnomnomaly@lemmy.org 2 points 1 day ago

People will go to great lengths to excuse and justify their own idiocy, rather than suffer the simple acceptance they they could have been wrong... and one of these idiots suggested it was me who had 'hubris' :)