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Amazon Kindle does the exact same thing with their "Special Offers"
by treehau5 11y ago
Amazon Kindle does the exact same thing with their "Special Offers"
- ben174 11y agoOnly on the Kindle With Special Offers which is priced lower than the standard Kindle. A way more upfront approach. It's literally in the title of the product that you are purchasing something with advertising on the lock screen.
- dingaling 11y ago> Only on the Kindle With Special Offers which is priced lower than the standard Kindle. There is also advertising on-by-default on the full-priced Kindles, but they call it 'Recommended Content' . It takes-up a chunk of the home screen. Easy enough to disable but it's still advertising.
- HiggySmalls 11y agoYeah but you get the benefit of paying a discounted price for a Kindle with "special offers"
- delecti 11y ago> Yeah, but you get the benefit of paying a discounted price for Windows 10 with the free upgrade. I think this is somewhat less intrusive than the Kindle Special Offers, which is already not very intrusive, but both are still advertising.
- soared 11y agoBut they aren't the same at all. Kindle is literally ads, with big text, calls to actions, discounts, etc. This wallpaper is 99% a wallpaper, 1% an ad.
- alanh 11y agoThis comment should be unreadably light gray by now. Amazon’s ads are such as explicit part of what a customer is buying that it’s in the title of the product Amazon is selling: “Kindle WITH SPECIAL OFFERS.” Microsoft isn't even calling these “ads” in the SPECIFIC FEATURE TOGGLE that controls it. “Exact same,” my ass. You ought to be ashamed.
- marssaxman 11y agoWhich means that Amazon should be excoriated for their misbehavior as well as Microsoft, yes...?