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Google Home Treats Users To Ads Without Permission
The curious case of the Disney ad that’s not an ad…
Google Home users are accustomed to snippets of requested information, but a recently reported story that has been verified by other users smells of something a little too “commercial.” In the past week, users have reported an additional bonus when asking for information from the AI device: an ad for Disney’s new release, Beauty and the Beast.
Think back to the uproar over strategically placed advertisements when Amazon first announced a Kindle e-reader that included ads on the sleep screen. It was blasted as the death of reading, just for the very notion that an Amazon customer might want to see an ad on a platform they already use for shopping. Of course, in the Kindle’s case, the ads were a trade off for getting a device of similar quality at a heavily discounted price.
