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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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[–] Fyrnyx@kbin.melroy.org 4 points 1 day 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.