cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/21524474
Smart display will soon default to showing ads after three hours.
Fuck Amazon, but also fuck journalists who abuse words: bricking is not a synonym for “removing”
Right? Bricking is literally making (its only usage) a brick out of it. You would think journalists are good with using words…
Well, we decided that we don’t want to pay for journalism anymore and would much rather just have everything be funded by ad views because “information should be free”. So no, journalists aren’t good with words anymore because nobody wants to pay for it
Wait, they were charging $2 a month to unlock the ability to turn your device into a smart picture frame when idle? Something that doesn’t even require to be online and that you could easily convert an old tablet to do for free?
If you were stupid enough to give your money away for a subscription fee for that, then the “service” being discontinued is the best thing that could have happened to you.
Also this sort of practice should be made illegal.
I don’t understand why people buy this crap in the first place
Amazon deserves being called out for this kind of ridiculous service: paying every month so that a device you brought don’t nag you with ads.
I get that a company would show ads in their newspaper, video streaming, or online service to make producing the content financially viable. But ads on a device people buy to display their own family pictures is ridiculous. Whoever thought people would welcome this idea lacks common sense.
