We echo owners try repeatedly to turn off the ads but they keep coming back via various tricks Amazon does to the echo devices and configurations over time. Are you sure your solution (enable Alexa privacy) actually works to stop ads for good? Stopping the ads under alexa privacy is only stopping one minor slice of the various different types of ads that Amazon serves on the echo devices.

Here's how to access this privacy setting to turn off "Interest-Based Ads from Amazon on Alexa":

1) Open the Alexa app

2) Click the "More" hamburger menu button at the bottom, which looks like a stack of three horizontal lines that of progressively shorter length

3) Click "Alexa Privacy" option, which has an icon that looks like a purse with a checkmark

4) Click "Manage Your Alexa Data" which is found by scrolling toward the end of the list of options, 5th from the last

5) Scroll down to the section "Interest-Based Ads from Amazon on Alexa" and toggle off the toggle switch for "Receive Interest-based ads delivered by Amazon on Alexa"

Please note, historically Amazon will redesign their interfaces and change how to access this option, and possibly reset all your settings so you may have to periodically revisit this option and reset.

I just toggled off the interest-based ads for the first time, so I appreciate SlashbotAgent bringing this to my attention. We'll see how well it works...

The point they are making seems confusing at first, but then it just comes down to power consumption per terabyte. SSDs get hotter than HDDs because SSDs use more power.

It's unclear who is driving the inctructions to remove 'independent'. The Verge article is unclear because it says that FTC directed the staff. So we are to believe the FTC is willing giving up its own power? The article mentions "Republican leadership at the FTC" are not pushing back. But that raises the question - pushing back against what?

Very nice post, I appreciate it! It got me thinking - maybe if we use this framework for literally spelling out the categories for the who what where when why how, the younger generations might see how useful it is and copy it. What I mean, is that by seeing the categories used as headers the way you did, I felt it was more compelling compared to other styles that omit the headers. Almost like I found your writing more trustworthy because you were hitting all the important points and I didn't subconsciously worry that anything was being left out. Kudos and thank you again!

Who, What, Where, When, Why (and How) - too bad the young kids these days never heard of this

Is this lawsuit in the united states, or another country? If USA, which state?

This will be a great financial loss. What should we do to preserve the free apps we have accumulated in the Amazon app store? Back in the day I diligently claimed the many free apps that Amazon would offer over the years. Lots of good ones, which I'd otherwise have to pay for to obtain through Google Play. I don't want to lose all that money. How can we preserve these owned apps? Just download and install every single app from the Amazon app store, and never reformat that device(s)?

Of course the prices are going to drop. So ironic how I see this article tonight when just earlier today I bought an SSD from Microcenter (2TB WD SN850x, $15 discount for purchase with any motherboard, bringing the final price to $145). I wonder how much this will cost in six months...

Couldn't it just be that both are true simultaneously/concurrently? I feel like the data center market is separate from the GPU market, so AMD can win in one market while losing in another?

This article is a bit old (dated 1/14/2025) but it's the first search result: "Elon Musk Discussed as Buyer for TikTok as Ban Deadline Looms" https://www.barrons.com/articl... But I feel like the influence of oligarchs simply transcends any particular administration

I think the word "they" is key here. Could the sale of tik tok have anything to do with having been a competitor to other social media? Who would have been the "they" motivated to get rid of tik tok?

Why do the elderly get to have good government health insurance? The elderly cost the most to insure, yet the government can handle it. It would be cheaper to add everyone else under the same umbrella all together. But no, we pay private health companies who refuse to cover our claims.

Heh! So, what do you have to do, in order to pay your monthly premium for Go Fund Me insurance?

Why do Americans need to crowdsource our own healthcare in the United States? These sorts of stories keep popping up. Why can't we have normal healthcare like the rest of the civilized world?

If you have no software that needs a faster PC, why would you upgrade? The execs talk like people are dying to update because their systems are too slow? No they aren't. The systems are fine as-is, all the software runs fine. Why upgrade?