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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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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Are those things hackable? Even if it means a full wipe?

[–] sommerset@thelemmy.club 9 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Never owned that Alexa shit.

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[–] the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

The stupid part is how incredibly obvious this outcome was yet a bunch of clueless morons bought them anyway.

[–] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 6 points 2 days ago

I've got to wonder what they thought they were buying. It's not like the warning signs were sparse these past, oh, ten years or so.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I have an Echo Show, it shows a bunch of ads. It's typically out of my view and I never use the video features. It has options to disable things and I thought I disabled them all but maybe they show ads now regardless. Because I'm definitely seeing ads. I only got one because I think it was bundled with something else or it was a gift.

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[–] Fyrnyx@kbin.melroy.org 4 points 2 days ago

Additionally, Echo Shows may play audio ads when users listen to Amazon Music on Alexa.

Idiots. It's called - get a media player and a bluetooth speaker of which the media player can connect to. Both of which don't contain ads.

How inconvenienced are we that simply having a basic alarm clock - which has no ads, a dumb tv - that gives you no ads and among other stupidly simple but workable technology is just not enough?

They're just glorified tablets slapped onto the Echo speakers. Fucking morons.

[–] GaryGhost@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Why would you buy that. Ten years ago I had an Amazon phone and it would fill my home screen with ads. I guess if you hadn't experienced that scenario but otherwise why would you pay for that. Besides the ads fuck Amazon why give them any money. Go to Newegg, Walmart anywhere else

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