“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.
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.
I turned off ads on mine.
By turning it face down.
“Honey, you know what would really tie this room together? A giant electronic advertising billboard!”
“That giant electronic advertising billboard really tied the room together.”
“And he peed on it.”
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.
You Do Not Speak Unless Spoken To And I Will Never Speak To You.
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.
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.
LOL I knew that would happen the day they announced it.
[ Picachu Face : o ]
(I’m too lazy to find the meme)
People regret buying skunks after being sprayed by skunks.
It’s so predictable
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.
I know, that’s what I do. It’s just so bloat ridden it’s 5 clicks with a shitty remote to switch inputs. I want a tv with no UI, just a power button, volume, channel, and input. Maybe a menu for color settings. The menus on mine are built to push me to one app or another. Every time I turn it on I have to navigate pop ups and prompts trying to get me to connect it and spend money on one app or another. I just want to go to HDMI 1.
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.
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.
B&O 😊 awesome Picture and awesome Sound.
Smartness is only achieved by placing an Apple TV into it.And price is way too high.
My dad has one.
I have an old LG and have set on my router to keep it offline
I only use it with ISP TV box, Nintendo Switch and Apple TV
I need one with ultra resolution but also unsmart
Wait until your smart TV starts playing adds every 10min no matter what your watching, or even if the TV is “turned off”
“Drink a verification can to continue”
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…
Or use eye tracking to automatically pause the ad if you look away from it and hold up everything until you actually watch it
Its subscription is 4 dollars cheaper, though!
Ambient display ads.
Advertising…helps customers discover new content and products they may be interested in.
Someone needs to coin a word to describe this type of infuriating corporate statement. They make astonishingly piss-weak arguments in a patronising tone, as if to insist that reality must be whatever they say it is because they’re a successful company.
It’s the kind of statement that’s not technically a lie, but still seems dishonest for them to present as though it were a sane response, almost like an attempt at gaslighting.
I think the person who wrote that response should be forced to wear it around their neck so that everyone can see what sort of person they are.
There’s a certain amount of advertising I’ll accept. If I go to see an action movie, 1 to 3 previews of other action movies that are coming out in the next few months is okay.
Of course, because they tried to force a Mission: Impossible movie down my throat, I might never go see an action movie made after 2014 ever again.
“Bullshit” still works wonders.
That sounds right to me. Maybe “spin” if I want to be a bit more neutral, but it doesn’t look like they deserve the benefit of the doubt.
Theyre putting a happy spin on some bullshit.
Spin is bullshit’s little brother. It’s mostly the truth, but viewed from an angle that favors a specific point.
Corpospeak?
I guess? Someone also said “rhetoric”, and although it counts as both of these, I’m specifically thinking about these kinds of statements you get in press releases that obnoxiously try to paint the world the way that the company needs it to be in order to justify what they’re doing.
Things like “Customers don’t like regulations that stop us giving them the best service”, “Our users are clear that they want the freedom to choose what subscription models work for them”, you know? Those kind of weaselly shit on my pie and tell me it’s a blueberry statements, where they dishonestly attempt to pose as the good guys wanting to do best for the world. They clearly must know that nobody actually falls for it, but they say it anyway because they need it to be out there in order for their paid-off politicians and useful idiots to have something to support deregulation.
It’s not just companies. Amazon started pushing ads to subscribers who pay for ad-free Prime video content. Some idiot here on Lemmy actually insisted it wasn’t an ad at all, but a “promotion.”
Companies are getting their customers to make infuriating, ridiculous corporate statements for them.
The key is to tell your audience something they wish would be true.
Rhetoric?
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