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People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads (arstechnica.com)

submitted 2 months ago by punkibas@lemmy.zip to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] moopet@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

The evolutionarily stable state is a small percentage more ads than people will tolerate. That's just maths.

[–] kamen@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Can anyone recommend a similar type of device that's not ad-supported? I don't care about voice, but would like to have a desk clock with a synced calendar.

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[–] Dadifer@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I haven't had this problem, yet

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago (5 children)

I have an Echo Show, it shows a bunch of ads. It's typically out of my view and I never use the video features. It has options to disable things and I thought I disabled them all but maybe they show ads now regardless. Because I'm definitely seeing ads. I only got one because I think it was bundled with something else or it was a gift.

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[–] PissingIntoTheWind@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I have the end of life’d JBL smart speaker. It still works with Google. But doesn’t have the bells and whistles. But it’s the best system I have ever come across. I have one Google screen and I don’t see the difference between the two. And the JBL has amazing sound.

[–] GaryGhost@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Why would you buy that. Ten years ago I had an Amazon phone and it would fill my home screen with ads. I guess if you hadn't experienced that scenario but otherwise why would you pay for that. Besides the ads fuck Amazon why give them any money. Go to Newegg, Walmart anywhere else

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