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[–] st3ph3n@midwest.social 11 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I do almost all of my reading on a kindle - one of the ones with ads on the lock screen, and for months now all of the ads have been for this type of no-effort, low-quality, AI-generated garbage. Amazon clearly doesn't give a fuck as long as they make money.

[–] sik0fewl@kbin.social 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

There’s ads on the Lock Screen now? Ugh.

[–] kick_out_the_jams@kbin.social 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

They have sold two 'tiers' of kindles for awhile, the one with ads on the lock screen is discounted.

It's not my favorite thing but iirc the lock screen is supposed to be the only place with ads.

[–] Stillhart@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Now? They've had the option almost since they first started selling them. It's like $10 to remove them permanently. Honestly didn't realize anyone would get the one with ads on purpose but hey, I didn't think people would use Twitter when I first heard about it either.

[–] DdCno1@beehaw.org 2 points 10 months ago

I bought a few of their tablets with ads on purpose - and then just blocked the ads.

[–] StenSaksTapir@feddit.dk 1 points 10 months ago

Well, if they didn't care about being flooded with machine generated trash, they wouldn't have set the limit to books you can self publish down to a mere three per day.

[–] aperson@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago

I don't know how it is now, but the older ones you could root and disable the ads.