Never owned that Alexa shit.
this post was submitted on 11 Oct 2025
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Are those things hackable? Even if it means a full wipe?
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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The stupid part is how incredibly obvious this outcome was yet a bunch of clueless morons bought them anyway.
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.
Why would you buy that. Ten years ago I had an Amazon phone and it would fill my home screen with ads. I guess if you hadn't experienced that scenario but otherwise why would you pay for that. Besides the ads fuck Amazon why give them any money. Go to Newegg, Walmart anywhere else
can these things be reflashed?
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.