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>>qainsi+(OP)
I wish I could pay money to hide amazon ads on our echo show devices and not auto-opt-in to each new "experience" pane they add. They let you do it for Kindle ads and now for Prime, maybe it'd be a nice cash injection for the faltering Alexa org?

Really, I just want our smart displays (which I paid real money for) to show our family photos and do smart home things. It's exhausting to repeatedly have to open up the settings panel and uncheck whichever new screens/"experiences" they've added each time they start popping up. There are dozens at this point--talk about shipping your org chart!

Hopefully Matter will mature at some point and Apple will ship some smart displays of their own, and then we can toss our Alexas in the bin.

>>diegs+2H
Google's displays are fairly decent. No ads, can cast Home Assistant dashboards onto them (with functional touch), and the 1st gen hubs sell for around ~$30 and 2nd gen around ~$50.

>>Sparky+QM
Yeah, they are generally better but Ring and Alexa Skills are better than their Google counterparts (at least the last time I checked).

I actually have a few old Nest hubs sitting in the basement…

>>diegs+Lh1
I rely on HA pretty heavily for everything, and that covers anything I'd want out of Alexa and more.