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After luring customers with low prices, Amazon stuffs Fire TVs with ads (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

When you're served ads, you're not the customer, but the product. The customers would be the advertisers. There's nothing inherently wrong with this, mind you, until it stops you from consuming the context you intended on consuming. Then it becomes a problem.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

And when I'm paying for the privilege of getting ads.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yes 100% this too