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“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.

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Are those things hackable? Even if it means a full wipe?

[–] xxce2AAb 6 points 3 days ago

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.

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] ook@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 3 days ago (5 children)
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