“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.
You Do Not Speak Unless Spoken To And I Will Never Speak To You.
I turned off ads on mine.
By turning it face down.
I don’t think I’ll ever buy any product that advertises itself as ‘smart’. They seem to be anything but.
Edit: I do have a 14 year old ‘smart’ TV, but it’s basically only a monitor for my PC.
Can anyone recommend a similar type of device that’s not ad-supported? I don’t care about voice, but would like to have a desk clock with a synced calendar.
Just a clock and a calendar? That’s not the limit of what these things do, but that’s easier to get that functionality without ads.
https://dakboard.com/site?ref=wheresyoured.at
More DIY
Cool, thanks. TRMNL looks good, with the only thing I dislike is that the ready made kits ship from the US (I’m in the EU). I see that there are EU resellers stocking DIY kits, so I might have a go at those.
A Tablet.
I don’t really like the idea - I don’t have an old one to use for that, but even if I had, I wouldn’t leave it plugged in 24/7 with an aging battery inside of it. I’m looking for something that’s either meant to be plugged in constantly or something that can last a few weeks on a single charge.
The evolutionarily stable state is a small percentage more ads than people will tolerate. That’s just maths.
I regret ever getting mixed up with Amazon in the first place. I canceled Prime, stopped ordering from Amazon’s website, found a Kindle alternative, pulled the plug on my IoT crap, and unplugged my Echoes. No regrets. YMMV.
LOL I knew that would happen the day they announced it.
[ Picachu Face : o ]
(I’m too lazy to find the meme)
JFC
Advertising is a small part of the experience, and it helps customers discover new content and products they may be interested in. If customers don’t like a suggestion, they can swipe to skip to the next screen card or directly provide feedback by tapping the Information icon or pressing the screen.
No fucks given, we’re gonna shove em down your throat.
If they give you a “no ads for me at all, thanks” option, it’d be fine, but I highly doubt that this would happen.
Anyone know a good TV on the market now? I don’t need ultra resolution. I want it unsmart. I need it to switch between HDMI inputs.
For a TV, just don’t connect it to a network.
This doesn’t work for the Amazon Echo Show though, since internet connectivity is required for its core function.
You’ll pay through the nose, but look at digital signage panels. They are bristling with I/O, configurable to the nth degree, wonderfully over-engineered and utterly free from bloat.
I’m also in the market for one. Can’t give you a recommendation from experience, but from what I read some smart TVs can be booted up and operated in “dumb” mode, which I think would be a good compromise - you might wanna look into that, because dedicated dumb TVs seem to be next to non-existent.
I need one with ultra resolution but also unsmart
“Honey, you know what would really tie this room together? A giant electronic advertising billboard!”
The only reason we ever got any TV show is because of TV commercials.
Yeah, and we would never have had theater either without Ads. Will Shakespeare was all about the product placement.
Does the ad money in this case go to the creators of the content displayed on these displays, or does it go to Amazon who also got money from selling these displays?
Is that relevant somehow?
Yes
Idiocy
People regret buying skunks after being sprayed by skunks.
People regret buying …
They will continue to support …
Wait until your smart TV starts playing adds every 10min no matter what your watching, or even if the TV is “turned off”
The only ads I’m watching are the previews 💪
Kudos on the N64. What game is loaded? I bought me a Retro-Bit Tribute64 controller and got Rosalina’s mupen64 Emulator going on. Oh my sweet sweet Perfect Dark…
Ambient display ads.
It’s subscription is 4 dollars cheaper, though!
Or use eye tracking to automatically pause the ad if you look away from it and hold up everything until you actually watch it
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