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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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[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 51 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

This is a real “the scorpion stung the frog” situation.

There was never any other way for this to go. Is in the scorpions nature to cram ads and tracking into your devices. That was always the strategy even with their Fire lines of devices.

Ring will be next. It’s already giving them your address, neighbourhood, routine, device types, etc. That data gates correlate to census income data, network traffic, etc. to build a profile of who you are as a consumer.

[–] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 23 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

I believe there was just a post the other day arguing that Ring was beginning to collect biometric data on anyone that passed in front of it.

[Edit] It was A Boring Dystopia post from 6 days ago https://lemmy.ml/post/37147235

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

Not just who you are as a consumer, who you are as a person.