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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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[–] PissingIntoTheWind@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I have the end of life’d JBL smart speaker. It still works with Google. But doesn’t have the bells and whistles. But it’s the best system I have ever come across. I have one Google screen and I don’t see the difference between the two. And the JBL has amazing sound.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I have an Echo Show, it shows a bunch of ads. It's typically out of my view and I never use the video features. It has options to disable things and I thought I disabled them all but maybe they show ads now regardless. Because I'm definitely seeing ads. I only got one because I think it was bundled with something else or it was a gift.

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[–] Dadifer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I haven't had this problem, yet

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago

all the fire devices have been getting worse.

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