No, I don’t like mine and would probably literally cover the screen of it was in my eyesight. It’s unacceptable.
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blady_blah@lemmy.world 2 days agoI have an echo show in my kitchen. It displays ads, but they’re super easy to ignore. They’re just basically text pictures on the screen when it’s not being used and on topics that I selected.
I’m pretty massively against ads, but the echo show’s don’t bother me in the least. If Alexa Plus starts giving me verbal ads or injecting them into things then it will quickly find its way into the trash can.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 day ago
sobchak@programming.dev 1 day ago
I have one of those echo ball looking things with a clock on it. I mostly just use it to play atmospheric noise and set alarms and as a clock. I do get ads sometimes. Sometimes I ask it to play something and it will ask me to subscribe to something. Sometimes it will notify me of a price drop on Amazon. I’ll probably get rid of it soon. My life has just been hectic lately, and I haven’t had the time to set something else up to replace it yet. Going to completely de-big-tech soon (I’m mostly there already); I don’t trust them, with them being so close to this fascist admin. I think it’s likely these will be used for state surveillance; some of big tech’s products and services already are.
tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
For me, there’s no level of advertisement that is permissible, no matter how seemingly inoffensive the ad may be. It’s still an ad.
In my own home on a device I paid for, it’s simply not happening.
My tolerance is zero, because I am not willing to accept this ad-saturated society that we have somehow been generationally conditioned into thinking is acceptable.
mrmanager@lemmy.today 1 day ago
I still dont understand how people think its fine seeing ads everywhere they look. What is in their minds…