Amazon has confirmed $15 Ad Opt-Out

Published on September 10, 2012 By DrJBHL In Personal Computing

Things are getting more and more obnoxious.

You buy a Kindle Fire HD ($199 7” version, $299 8.9” version), you also get advertising on the lock screen and at the bottom of the home screen for books, movies TV shows and (of course) Amazon products.

If you opt to pay $15 more, these ads will be disabled.

Sort of like someone blasting music (at a legal hour) but if you pay him, he’ll turn the volume down. Another form of a protection racket.

Amazon says few people choose to opt out. I bet they’ll find in a few months that these ads have been tracking them as well. Why not? Their ebooks already do that.

Call me an old fashioned dinosaur (at your own risk), but when will folks “Just say no”?

Source: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2409476,00.asp

Comments (Page 3)

DrJBHL

on Sep 12, 2012

starkers

reply 30

Shaunna gets home on Sunday and I'll be just fine after that

Part before the conjunction? YIPPEEE!!!! Genuinely happy for you, mate.

Part after the conjunction? Bloody unlikely. She'll take one look at the house and then it's "adios starkers". Banished to the garage for eternity.

Genuinely happy she's coming home.

LightStar

on Sep 12, 2012

I would never have any use for a tablet anyway, I'll stick with my little netbook.

starkers

on Sep 12, 2012

DrJBHL

reply 31

Part after the conjunction? Bloody unlikely. She'll take one look at the house and then it's "adios starkers". Banished to the garage for eternity.

Nah,, mate, I've kept the place clean and tidy in her absence. That's how I was brought up... not to be a slovenly slob.

DrJBHL

reply 31

Genuinely happy she's coming home.

Me too, mate, me too. It has been too quiet around here without her. Besides, I'm sick of talking to myself. They reckon that's the first sign of madness... which means I'm without hope.

Not only am I answering myself, I'm arguing the point as well.

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