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my mom had an alexa gizmo beside her chair, that was cycling through 4 kinds of ads followed by a random pic of one of her grandkids. Literally 80% ads. And she placed it beside the chair where she spends so many hours.

I said "but didn't we get you a digital picture frame?" and she said "this one can play music. sometimes I use that feature."

Really felt dystopian. She didn't mind at all. Although she appreciated when I spent 15 minutes digging in the settings and turning off every category of slideshow _except_ for pictures from her albums.






It won’t be along until the ads come back. I did the same thing. The ads always come back. Ended up returning it.

FWIW, we’ve had a good experience with the Aura picture frames. No nonsense. Good UX.



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