I only wanted a relatively cheap starter tablet which I thought was what I was getting. That is, in fact, exactly what you got. I have the same device, albeit

I only wanted a relatively cheap starter tablet which I thought was what I was getting. That is, in fact, exactly what you got. I have the same device, albeit not ad supported. In other words it's exactly the same as yours except there are no ads on the lockscreen. (sidenote: I'm really not a Kindle fanboy of any kind, but responding to your extreme post is making me sound like one!) I didn't expect to receive a device primarily meant to serve me ads, sorry if this is a naive expectation. Come on, you have to know you're wildly exaggerating when you say it's primarily meant to serve you ads. As far as what should or not be posted to HN, I believe that is why there is an up/down voting system. We're in total agreement here, that's why I flagged it. Your tone is unnecessarily condescending. I wrote it that way because you either went to the trouble of writing an alarmist, link-baity post like this without even doing the most cursory research (i.e. reading the product page) or you knew the post was intellectually dishonest and you said, "the hell with it" and tried to score some traffic for your blog with it anyway. I see this type of thing get submitted more and more here, but usually I bite my tongue in the interest of civility. Today, I didn't. Sorry you were the unlucky author I called out; you're far from the only person to do this.