This just happened in the past few hours. My buyer app is now an ad instead of the Amazon buyer logo. It is 4 times the size of the original widget and has pushed all my other app widgets into new positions. This feels very intrusive, I can’t look at my home screen without advertising now - might have to delete the app.
I do not appreciate it. Way to piss off buyers Amazon. The ad is not event targeted, not related to anything I’ve looked at or purchased.
Maybe you could create a group on your last screen page and move it into the group.
We have four groups set up for Apple programs (apps) that are standard and, from time to time, get updated which would put them back onto a screen page. Having them in a group keeps them contained when they are updated and on the screen where we have placed them (kind of an out of site out of mind type thing).
If it is a widget, there is a way to size it … but we have to research / refresh our memory on how we did those.
It is the widget. I moved it to the last page, now out of sight/out of mind. I don’t think that was their goal.
I expect ads when I use my browser, putting them on my home screen as the widget display is a bit too far for me.
Every ‘live’ television show is selling stuff now, it’s insane. I like to shop when I choose to. Not when I first open my phone or watch a morning news show.
There’s a reason we have all the shopping networks hidden or removed from the TV line up.
5 minutes of a TV show selling something followed by 3 minutes of commercials selling stuff … at least it gives us old timers enough time to get up and go use the restroom without missing anything.
I don’t watch those shopping networks at all. I’m talking about shows like Good Morning America, The Today Show, all the talk shows (that I don’t seek out but the TV is still on and the noise is company. It gets muted when they start pitching products.
Retailers aren’t competing with them, why must they compete with us? Some are Amazon affiliates because they give the disclaimer that they get compensation.
We were contacted by Good Morning America for inclusion of our product. They wanted us to offer 50% discount and free shipping. Our price is $19.95. No way we could sell at 50% plus free shipping without losing money! They were a bit incredulous that we were turning them down.
I was incredulous that they didn’t get it when we explained the math.
We don’t watch much “TV” (If they still call it that) however, when we do we always save the program first. We were early adopters of Satellite (Direct) TV, until they were gobbled up. Had a Tivo box they replaced every few years. Hate commercials.
Went back to cable, got used to that and had some method of going through commercials. Mostly used for internet access, the prices went well over $300 a month.
Cut the cable and moved to T-Mobile 5G Home internet and rolling our own streaming packages. I am amazed, but not that much, since we look out the window at a tower, at the speed and quality. At 1/4 the price!
Our main streaming app is YouTube TV, reasonable price, runs on a Fire Stick so we get all the Prime stuff too. To the op, the “press this to add to your Amazon Cart” is so irritating. Though I knew it was only a matter of time.
Back to YouTube TV, selected since it had channels the SO (Significant Other) demanded (but has never watched) it has a better than Tivo functions.
We simply record the programs we are interested in, they last for more than 6 months. Then we watch them and fast forward through the commercials. Priceless. Direct TV had something we called Syracuse, since the color of the commercials (represented by the bar at the bottom) was orange. You could hit one button and go to the next segment of the show. Still, YouTube TV over T-Mobile Home Internet works for us.
@primetime to your thread starter, that would so Pi$$ us off. I too would find a way to work around the intrusion. And tell the world about it.
Amazon intrudes on our life every day, and night it so sucks.
