Amazon is bricking primary feature on $160 Echo device after 1 year

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

It’s pretty cool how things we purchase can just lose functionality at the drop of a hat.

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Those things have ads? Why would you intentionally buy an advertisement billboard for your house?

It's a toss up, but it pretty much only shows just photo/link ads. The one that they've really been pushing recently is that Disney platformer game on the Switch for some reason.

Yea but you still willingly put a little billboard in your house and you even paid them to do it 🤷‍♂️

I love paying a faceless corporation that hates humans to remind me everyday that capitalism is killing me!

Sorry, what I meant was that the ads are extremely easy to ignore, and you can immediately swipe through them if you want to. I use mine exclusively as an alarm clock anyways.