Should be allowed to return products at a full refund when they do something like this, and for an additional 25% value in a gift card for the inconvenience.
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an additional 25% value in a gift card for the inconvenience.
Plus countering inflation, of the company reaps rewards from sitting on that cash in between.
Don't worry the rest of the echoes Will be on the chopping block next. The product doesn't make them enough money.
I have a couple of 8 in and a 5-in show who's sole purpose in life is to display whoever just rang my Eufy doorbell.
I can't say that I've ever noticed an ad on them I'm sure they're there I just don't spend any time looking at them.
I've stopped using them for shopping lists. Other than occasionally asking what the weather is today or the kids asking them how to spell a word, we hardly use them.
I use my smartwatch for timers. I do have a couple of smart bulbs in the bedroom and use it to turn off the lights but again I never look at it.
A picture frame with ads? My god Jim
This is a good reason not to buy a kindle, or another one if you have one already. If they're doing this they'll just as easily steal the books I bought when they randomly decide to.
There was a bunch of noise over a book that they rescinded from Kindles a couple / few years ago. I don't recall the details, but it made headlines.
It was 1984. Surprise!
I only buy authors that refuse to DRM their work.
Jokes on them, i actually own my epubs
Gotta love Calibre.
They already did. 1984 of all books, too.
Agreed. Its really annoying since i love the Paperwhite. But I just don't trust Amazon as a company.
We have an older Echo Show in the kitchen. I hate it. It’s genuinely one of the single most ill-conceived, user-unfriendly products I’ve ever experienced. It’s straight up dog shit.
My wife originally picked it up because Amazon were flogging them for something like £30 as a loss-leader. Figured it would make a useful bedside clock and smart speaker in one. It’s a shitty clock, and absolutely fucking useless on the bedside because it keeps flashing shit up in the dark. You can’t load any photos on to it, so you’re stuck looking at whatever artwork/“tips”/ads it wants to show you.
I don’t understand how Amazon created a device that looks like a little picture frame, that would be an ideal bedside clock, and apparently at no point did they consider that people might want to use it like that.
We since got a Google thing that’s essentially the same device (free with an energy tariff), and y’know, Google did a good job with that thing. Just sits in the bedroom being a clock and smart speaker, dimming nicely when the lights are out, never advertising shit at us.
I use it as a Bluetooth speaker, which also sucks because it’ll randomly refuse to disconnect from my phone even though I did it through my phone’s settings. It’ll be disconnected, then I’ll be sat in the lounge and I’ll hear it reconnect, like some kind of cunt.
And they’ve programmed it to talk ALL THE FUCKING TIME. “NOW CONNECTED TO YOUR PHONE”. Yes, I fucking know it is, I just told you to do that.
It is legitimately the worst bit of tech I’ve ever used, and I’ve used a Virgin Media cable TV box.
for what it’s worth you can “alexa turn off the screen” to help when it’s dark
Thanks for this tip. I had no idea this was an option.
There really should be a Bluetooth setting for "do not auto connect me." My car does this too, I wear bluetooth headphones a lot and for short to medium car trips it's not worth it to have to connect and put my headphones back only to pull them back out and reconnect after I arrive, I'd rather just listen to headphones the whole time, but my car waits until I've turned on the car and pulled out of the driveway to auto connect against my wishes.
Sadly I don't think bluetooth was really designed for how interconnected it has become. I'm still annoyed bluetooth multi-point is so broken :/, rather than interviewing multiple audio sources to the same speaker it just force mutes one when the other comes and at least for my momentum 4s I don't see an option to set the priority or suppress this.
Bluetooth is definitely due for an overhaul.
The way multiple connections are managed at the moment is woefully inadequate (when the devices even support it).
Hah mine too. Playing a game on my laptop. Pull up my phone. Browse to a webpage. My headphones “OH YOU WANT TO LISTEN TO THE AD ON THIS PAGE ON YOUR PHONE OK SURE RIGHT NOW ONLY AD ONLY AD”
Fuuuuckkkk
I'm really sorry you have to share a home with that shitty device. Maybe break a window, mess up the place, and throw it away and pretend it was the only item stolen.
i remember when virgin media first used tivo boxes. was a simpler time
All of which is to say, once I finally get around to picking up a half way reasonable Bluetooth speaker for the kitchen I’m putting a fucking hammer through that fucking show. Useless lump of crap.
Oh look, more e-waste.
Companies should be forced to pay per pound of their shit that people throw away before a certain time
Just as a little tip, in the US if you switch your Echo's language to US-CAN it displays way less ads :)
Ah, similar trick works with some viruses. If you set the keyboard layout or timezone to Russian, the ransomware will not encrypt your files.
Those things have ads? Why would you intentionally buy an advertisement billboard for your house?
It's a toss up, but it pretty much only shows just photo/link ads. The one that they've really been pushing recently is that Disney platformer game on the Switch for some reason.
Yea but you still willingly put a little billboard in your house and you even paid them to do it 🤷♂️
Sorry, what I meant was that the ads are extremely easy to ignore, and you can immediately swipe through them if you want to. I use mine exclusively as an alarm clock anyways.
I love paying a faceless corporation that hates humans to remind me everyday that capitalism is killing me!
Huh, I never knew this existed, or I might have bought a couple.
I’ve been thinking of digital picture frames both for myself, as my kids go off to college, and my Mom, as her grandkids go to college. However I’ve never been happy with how easy they are to manage
- I want mine to just work, and incorporate new pictures as I take them
- my Mom is not very tech savvy, so it really has to just work regardless of what she does, plus I need to be able to update it remotely
I see a variety of digital pictures frames and see how they try to make updating them easy, but I don’t see why they’re not completely automatic.
My phone automatically detects faces as I take pictures: I have a kids album that’s automatically updated whenever I take a photo of my kids. That’s how easy I want it
A Google nest is that easy.
I’ve heard it works for pretty well for androids, but I’m in the Apple ecosystem so it requires extra steps
time to open fraud complaints with your credit card company
Now you're talkin'.
I've noticed that threatening to do that works extremely well with Amazon. they recently started charging $8 for a UPS pickup when you do a return, and all I have to do is tell them that I will initiate a fraud complaint if they actually charge me for it and they just refund me
Crap like this is why I stopped buying things.
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