“I’m about to just toss the whole thing…”…

“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.

  • melroy@kbin.melroy.org
    2·
    1 year ago

    “Advertising is a small part of the experience”.

    Well great Amazon. Nobody is asking for this ‘experience’.

    • Master167@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I bought the thing. I should control want it shows at all times. The reason I can’t trust the company to futz with that is why I don’t have one.

  • w3dd1e@lemmy.zipEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I get that we should expect shit like this from Amazon but at the same time, they bought something and the maker completely changed how the device worked after they bought it.

    I’d be pissed too. We have to hold these companies accountable.

  • FauxFax@piefed.socialEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I’m about to just toss the whole thing and move back to google.

    … Ah yes. Here we see that, while frustrated, the consumer remains largely undeterred from fitting into the boxes outlined by our fearless corpo overlords.

  • spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    This week Amazon starting pushing ads to customers paying extra for ad-free Prime Video.

    Corporations are now so powerful they don’t have to abide by reasonable norms, contracts, or laws any longer. Any fines are just a cost of doing business and are a small fraction of the profits they generate.

    What are customers going to do anyway? Go to other businesses that are doing the exact same things on different days?

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    … and all the actual tech nerds who told everyone they should avoid smart devices like the plague laugh and laugh…

    • ByteOnBikes@discuss.onlineEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I run Pi-hole, and ublock.

      I went to my pal’s house and turn on his TV, ad. He turned on his Xbox, ad. Was looking for a specific game on his Xbox, another fucking ad.

      “Too complicated” he says when I suggested setting him up with a raspberry pi.