“I’m about to just toss the whole thing…”…

“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.

  • Octavio@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    3 hours ago

    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.

  • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    5 hours ago

    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.

    • kamen@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 hours ago

      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.

  • sturger@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    14·
    8 hours ago

    “Honey, you know what would really tie this room together? A giant electronic advertising billboard!”

  • MintyFresh@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    7 hours ago

    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.

    • rmuk@feddit.ukEnglish
      1·
      3 hours ago

      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.

    • kamen@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 hours ago

      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.

    • Petter1@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      1·
      3 hours ago

      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

  • Alenalda@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    15 hours ago

    Wait until your smart TV starts playing adds every 10min no matter what your watching, or even if the TV is “turned off”

  • Bobgrayyy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    16 hours ago

    I’m now reading Helen Philips’ Hum and it feels so disturbing that the dystopian world depicted in the book is so real. Like all of those things actually exist already, we just don’t think about them too often.

  • skisnow@lemmy.caEnglish
    54·
    23 hours ago

    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.

      • dermanus@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        15 hours ago

        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.

      • skisnow@lemmy.caEnglish
        3·
        16 hours ago

        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.

    • spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      12·
      22 hours ago

      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.

  • panda_abyss@lemmy.caEnglish
    57·
    1 day ago

    This is a real “the scorpion stung the frog” situation.

    There was never any other way for this to go. Is in the scorpions nature to cram ads and tracking into your devices. That was always the strategy even with their Fire lines of devices.

    Ring will be next. It’s already giving them your address, neighbourhood, routine, device types, etc. That data gates correlate to census income data, network traffic, etc. to build a profile of who you are as a consumer.