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After luring customers with low prices, Amazon stuffs Fire TVs with ads (arstechnica.com)

submitted 10 months ago by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 8 points 10 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.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 1 points 10 months ago

Yes 100% this too