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People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads (arstechnica.com)
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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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[–] D@piefed.social 58 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I'm about to just toss the whole thing and move back to google.

... Ah yes. Here we see that, while frustrated, the consumer remains largely undeterred from fitting into the boxes outlined by our fearless corpo overlords.

[–] other_cat@piefed.zip 11 points 2 days ago

"I gave Amazon my money and I'm mad, so I'm going to give even more money to another billionaire corp."

[–] Fyrnyx@kbin.melroy.org 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

They're a redditor and redditors aren't exactly smart.

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago

Hey! I resemble that remark.

[–] turdcollector69@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Lemmy is structurally just super reddit. It just hasn't been flooded by children yet so the discourse is still college level.

UI is too difficult for iPad babies but as the apps catch up the dumbass summer children will flood here too.

[–] PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space 2 points 2 days ago

While certain large instances 👀 might resemble Reddit in terms of "quality" of discussions, not all of them do. Not at all.