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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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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 6 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

That's awesome, but I don't need it. :)

[–] Smokeless7048@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

Oh, for sure, it's just for fun

My entire design goal is making it invisible for my wife, so things just work. As an example, I took our doorbell, and made it smart... Not a smart doorbell, but I have an esphome between the doorbell and the chime, so I can turn the chime off, or I can have our phonea get notified.