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

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[–] Opisek@lemmy.world 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] Astronauticaldb@lemmy.world -2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] Samvega@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Astronauticaldb@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

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.