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People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 year ago by 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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[–] 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

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