this post was submitted on 25 Aug 2024
92 points (96.9% liked)

Internet of Shit

443 readers
1 users here now

Rules:

1. What to post?
2. Behave.

Act like a nice human being.

founded 9 months ago
MODERATORS
Bezier@suppo.fi
92
Amazon is bricking primary feature on $160 Echo device after 1 year (arstechnica.com)
submitted 2 months ago by Bezier@suppo.fi to c/internetofshit@suppo.fi
18 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

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

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

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Wait, they were charging $2 a month to unlock the ability to turn your device into a smart picture frame when idle? Something that doesn't even require to be online and that you could easily convert an old tablet to do for free?

If you were stupid enough to give your money away for a subscription fee for that, then the "service" being discontinued is the best thing that could have happened to you.

Also this sort of practice should be made illegal.

[–] Eheran@lemmy.world -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

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 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.

[–] Eheran@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago

Then make that illegal: Unnecessary Internet connections.