“This is getting ridiculous and I’m about to just toss the whole thing and move back to Google,” one Redditor said of the “full-volume” ads for Alexa+ on their Echo Show.

Oh sweet summer child, Google is NOT going to be any better at this. That will just be changing one corporate evil for another.

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    2 months ago

    Google is NOT going to be any better at this

    What are you talking about? Google Home devices have been out for like a decade at this point, they don’t play ads on them.

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      2 months ago

      Yet. Google is an ad company that pushes ads nearly everywhere else. Shareholders/Wall St. demand infinitely increasing year over year profitability. It’s only a matter of time.

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        The Alexa division is struggling so they are well into the extract phase of the product.

        Google will get there in time as well.

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        2 months ago

        They don’t play ads on Google home/nest devices like this says Amazon do.

        I would know if my Google home hubs played ads on them.