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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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[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 12 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

JFC

Advertising is a small part of the experience, and it helps customers discover new content and products they may be interested in. If customers don’t like a suggestion, they can swipe to skip to the next screen card or directly provide feedback by tapping the Information icon or pressing the screen.

No fucks given, we're gonna shove em down your throat.

[–] kamen@lemmy.world 4 points 20 hours ago

If they give you a "no ads for me at all, thanks" option, it'd be fine, but I highly doubt that this would happen.