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Amazon is bricking primary feature on $160 Echo device after 1 year (arstechnica.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/21524474

Smart display will soon default to showing ads after three hours.

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why illegal? Makes more sense than to buy an extra device, not just ecologically. Hardly anyone is able to convert a tablet, most people are simply too dumb, to put it simply

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I meant illegal to force a subscription fee to use something that doesn't require any external service to function. Also illegal to turn something that someone had already bought to display pictures in his house into an advertising billboard without their consent.

This is why you don't buy shit that is will not work unless it is unnecessarily connected to the internet.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago

Then make that illegal: Unnecessary Internet connections.