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I just read an article about how they're increasing advertising on their Fire TVs. Rest assured, an Amazon OS is an Advertising OS.
Although, from what I've gathered of public opinion online, there's LOTS of people willing to forgo their privacy in exchange for free shit.
Edit: Oh...
And that article https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/11/after-luring-customers-with-low-prices-amazon-stuffs-fire-tvs-with-ads/
No difference to Google then
Apple would sell for 10 but would deny until death that it sold, and still convince you to believe that it didn't sell.In addition to giving it a "cool" name like DNA Titanium Protection XDR or something like that,