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Smart display will soon default to showing ads after three hours.
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Fuck Amazon, but also fuck journalists who abuse words: bricking is not a synonym for “removing”
It would be a shame if people hacked their devices and loaded whatever they wanted on them.
No!
That means people are still buying and using the device. This is a case for returning the product to Amazon/the store you brought it from citing the product is no longer fit for purpose because of changes made by the seller/manufacturer. If you live in a sensible country (sorry US) this should work.
This only stops if there is a clear and attributable loss of sales/increase in returns.
The class action suit against Sony for removing Linux from the PS3 really showed them.
What was the payout, $5 per owner?
Its not about getting money. Its about, in that case Sony geting a clear “this decision cost us money”.
That class action judgment was essentially a fee.
Fines that don’t take a significant proportion of a corporation’s yearly income until they unfuck whatever they did are just fees, they’re not effective.
Yeah I mean I wouldn’t buy one and I would encourage others not to. But if you already have it and can’t return it, make it your device, not theirs.
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.
I don’t understand why people buy this crap in the first place