People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads
People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads
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People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads
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Well, at least some part of the users are frustrated with ads. What bothers me more is that the majority certainly couldn't care less whether there are ads on their device or not. If they did, Amazon would be forced to do something about it.
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I'd get one if there was a good open source os I could easily flash on one of these that made these actually useful and ad free.
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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.
said one Reddit user
Uh. Uhhhh.
These people just won't get it will they. They refuse to understand it.
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Want a smart display? Get an open source magic mirror kit, not a corporate owned pos.
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Apple was the safe haven, but they too are going that route…
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ROFL Apple was never the safe haven, it was always just a tidy and fashionable cage.
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Apple has generally not had ads anywhere. However in recent years they are placing ads in more and more locations, making the user experience worse. Do you disagree with that statement?
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You know it makes you look petty and stupid when you attack Apple in a way where you're pretending every other companies issues are also theirs, right? Apple hasn't had issues with ads in the UI before, and I'm pretty sure they still don't (not sure what OC meant but am interested to learn). Yes, it's a walled garden. Everyone knows it's a walled garden. You aren't contributing to the conversation by pointing that fact out.
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What do you mean? I have not seen ads in the OS itself…?
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Depends on what you define as the OS. They put ads for their F1 movie in the Wallet app recently. I've seen ads for their services in the settings menu.
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I hate to be an I-Told-You-So type of guy, but surely you look at how they handle their tablets and knew it was why these things are so cheap. Honestly the best smart display I've seen so far outside of the DIY ones is the Pixel Tablet and that was underpowered as a tablet. It's funny though, because smart displays will become ubiquitous eventually not just because they're useful, but because they're prime real estate; look at the Samsung fridges. I'm guessing more people will have to install a Pi-Hole just to make them bearable.
I don't mind being an I-Told-You-So type of guy. My problem is the people who keep ignoring us, then wanting sympathy. You get a couple passes, sure, but at some point, I'm no longer going to waste my time with you.
Seriously. At this point I just mock them. I don't even offer solutions. Fuck you, you shat in our bed, now swim in it or get the fuck out.
Pihole gets less and less effective as more stuff gets encrypted or share domains with the basic functionality of the device.
An old condom is better than no condom.