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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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[–] jjlinux@lemmy.zip 37 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Never saw this coming (said no one ever).

[–] sasquatch7704@lemmy.world 24 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Well, you would be surprised, I bet at least 50% didn't see that coming.

[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 7 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

I didnt see it coming. I assumed that having a device always available to add shit to your shopping basket and listen to everything you say forever would be enough for them.

Honestly it should be more than enough.

[–] wellheh@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

But why would they take less if they can take more and you will keep buying it because it's cheap? These devices are a race to the bottom

[–] TomArrr@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago

Exactly. These companies don't know the concept of enough, only more.

[–] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

Nah, nothing's enough.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.zip 6 points 21 hours ago

We're in a sad state of affairs in this world.