{"id":145099,"date":"2025-10-10T20:58:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T20:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/people-regret-buying-amazon-smart-displays-after-being-bombarded-with-ads\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T20:58:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T20:58:40","slug":"people-regret-buying-amazon-smart-displays-after-being-bombarded-with-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/people-regret-buying-amazon-smart-displays-after-being-bombarded-with-ads\/","title":{"rendered":"People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Amazon Echo Show owners are reporting an uptick in advertisements on their smart displays.<\/p>\n<p>The company&#8217;s Echo Show smart displays have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazonforum.com\/s\/question\/0D56Q0000DYDLBvSQP\/why-is-my-echo-show-suddenly-showing-ads-and-how-do-i-turn-them-off\">previously shown<\/a> ads through the company&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/b?ie=UTF8&amp;node=21213736011\">Shopping Lists<\/a> feature, as well as advertising for <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2022\/07\/get-ready-for-alexa-skills-pop-up-ads-on-your-amazon-echo-show\/\">Alexa skills<\/a>.\u00a0Additionally, Echo Shows may play audio ads when users listen to Amazon Music on Alexa.<\/p>\n<p>However, reports on Reddit (examples <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/alexa\/comments\/1o0y0rw\/ads_this_will_cause_me_to_unplug_all_show_devices\/\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/alexa\/comments\/1nku3j6\/ads_after_alarm\/\">here<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/alexa\/comments\/1nj0kxc\/echo_show_wont_stop_advertising_amazon_plus\/\">here<\/a>) and from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/report\/797672\/amazon-echo-show-ads-alexa-plus\">The Verge\u2019s<\/a> Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, who owns more than one Echo Show, suggest that Amazon has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/alexa\/comments\/1nuucj0\/how_are_we_still_getting_ads_on_alexa\/\">increased the amount of ads<\/a> it shows on its smart displays&#8217; home screens. The Echo Show\u2019s apparent increase in ads is pushing people to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/alexa\/comments\/1o0y0rw\/ads_this_will_cause_me_to_unplug_all_show_devices\/\">stop<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/alexa\/comments\/1nlzdbg\/comment\/nf92nhm\/?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=web3x&amp;utm_name=web3xcss&amp;utm_term=1&amp;utm_content=share_button\">using<\/a> or even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/alexa\/comments\/1o0o3an\/question_im_returning_my_echo_show_because_it_has\/?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=web3x&amp;utm_name=web3xcss&amp;utm_term=1&amp;utm_content=share_button\">return<\/a> their Echo Shows.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2025\/10\/people-regret-buying-amazon-smart-displays-after-being-bombarded-with-ads\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2025\/10\/people-regret-buying-amazon-smart-displays-after-being-bombarded-with-ads\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon Echo Show owners are reporting an uptick in advertisements on their smart displays. The company&#8217;s Echo Show smart displays have previously shown ads through the company&#8217;s Shopping Lists feature, as well as advertising for Alexa skills.\u00a0Additionally, Echo Shows may play audio ads when users listen to Amazon Music on Alexa. However, reports on Reddit (examples here, here, and here) and from The Verge\u2019s Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, who owns more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","tve_updated_post":"","tve_custom_css":"","tve_user_custom_css":"","tve_globals":{},"tcb2_ready":0,"tcb_editor_enabled":0,"tve_landing_page":"","_tve_header":"","_tve_footer":""},"categories":[241],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads - UshopWell.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/people-regret-buying-amazon-smart-displays-after-being-bombarded-with-ads\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads - UshopWell.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Amazon Echo Show owners are reporting an uptick in advertisements on their smart displays. 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