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minus-squareAstronauticaldb@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 months agoJust as a little tip, in the US if you switch your Echo’s language to US-CAN it displays way less ads :)
minus-squareOpisek@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 months agoThose things have ads? Why would you intentionally buy an advertisement billboard for your house?
minus-squareAstronauticaldb@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 months agoIt’s a toss up, but it pretty much only shows just photo/link ads. The one that they’ve really been pushing recently is that Disney platformer game on the Switch for some reason.
minus-squarewinkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoYea but you still willingly put a little billboard in your house and you even paid them to do it 🤷♂️
minus-squareSamvega@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 months agoI love paying a faceless corporation that hates humans to remind me everyday that capitalism is killing me!
minus-squareGenosseFlosse@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 months agoAh, similar trick works with some viruses. If you set the keyboard layout or timezone to Russian, the ransomware will not encrypt your files.
Just as a little tip, in the US if you switch your Echo’s language to US-CAN it displays way less ads :)
Those things have ads? Why would you intentionally buy an advertisement billboard for your house?
It’s a toss up, but it pretty much only shows just photo/link ads. The one that they’ve really been pushing recently is that Disney platformer game on the Switch for some reason.
Yea but you still willingly put a little billboard in your house and you even paid them to do it 🤷♂️
I love paying a faceless corporation that hates humans to remind me everyday that capitalism is killing me!
Ah, similar trick works with some viruses. If you set the keyboard layout or timezone to Russian, the ransomware will not encrypt your files.