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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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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

The track record for people using that condescending phrase while not understanding what's happening continues...

The smart TVs operate on Android TV, made by Google.

Amazon uses their own version of Android, and that's where all the shitty stuff comes from.

I've got a nice name brand android TV, the only ads are "this movie is on streaming" or "this show premieres in a week".

I got a cheap Amazon TV in another room, in the same place for ads on the home screen, it has ads for random products

There is a marked difference. They are "better" at this. Obviously no one in 2025 thinks google is "good"

[–] stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca 1 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

The smart TVs operate on Android TV, made by Google.

I've been self hosting as much as I can for awhile. The one thing I don't have a good replacement solution for is Google TV. At least with alternate launchers and being able to install APKs (for now) it mostly works as a decent experience.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Back in the day wed hook up old desktops straight to living room PCs. There was no apps so we'd just go to websites.

I'd be surprised if there isn't some kind of raspberry pi mini PC with a good guinerap around Linux.

Some people will use a PlayStation/Xbox as well.

[–] stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca 2 points 23 hours ago

Kodi is the open source alternative and it is a terrible experience compared to the purpose made sticks. It is confusing to use, and worse, very unreliable (my install would regularly completely break and crash on startup).

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

Eh, I gave up and bought cheap used Apple TVs to replace all the Android / Google TVs and Rokus in the house.

[–] stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Apple TV isn't compatible with some of the services that I use so h That isn't an option either.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

Like what?