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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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[–] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 68 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (11 children)

This week Amazon starting pushing ads to customers paying extra for ad-free Prime Video.

Corporations are now so powerful they don't have to abide by reasonable norms, contracts, or laws any longer. Any fines are just a cost of doing business and are a small fraction of the profits they generate.

What are customers going to do anyway? Go to other businesses that are doing the exact same things on different days?

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 25 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (7 children)

People should give up streaming subscriptions. How long would it take to learn how to get movies another way, from a friend who is already doing it.

People dont even own their media anymore and it can be removed at any time. And they are paying for that. Lols.

[–] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I think you are severely underestimating how computer illiterate most people are. Many people I know struggle to use their Iphones. Not long ago a friend asked me to help him turn on subtitles on a streaming service on his smart TV.

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