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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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[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 1 day ago

If there is a trickle, you do not know what you're doing.

This whole comment has a, "I am very badass" vibe to it.

You're probably sending more data to the cloud than most because of the hubris.