Technology

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.

Same. I owned several devices at the time.

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.

can these things be reflashed?

Wouldn't this be a better fit for leopardsatemyface@lemmy.world ?

LAMF?

I haven't had this problem, yet

Morons buying moronic 'smart' devices, unable to understand that they're the product, not the consumer and they have sold away the rights to their eyes and ears with their purchases.

My house contains no smart devices that can harvest data from me (my mum does use a samsung smart TV from 2016) and all devices have everything disabled and other things installed to block data collection and tracking... I can't stop 100% of it, but what little trickle they do get is basically worthless.

My eyes and ears are not for sale, nor is my privacy.