I've got to wonder what they thought they were buying. It's not like the warning signs were sparse these past, oh, ten years or so.
this post was submitted on 11 Oct 2025
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I turned off ads on mine.
By turning it face down.
Additionally, Echo Shows may play audio ads when users listen to Amazon Music on Alexa.
Idiots. It's called - get a media player and a bluetooth speaker of which the media player can connect to. Both of which don't contain ads.
How inconvenienced are we that simply having a basic alarm clock - which has no ads, a dumb tv - that gives you no ads and among other stupidly simple but workable technology is just not enough?
They're just glorified tablets slapped onto the Echo speakers. Fucking morons.
Are those things hackable? Even if it means a full wipe?
Return them!
can these things be reflashed?
Google is NOT going to be any better at this
What are you talking about? Google Home devices have been out for like a decade at this point, they don’t play ads on them.
Yet
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