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I just got a Echo Show 5 yesterday, and yes those ads and other notifications can be turned off and rotation can be shut off too. Tips will stop if you leave the Show 5 alone and let the clock display, but if you ask Alexa a question or perform some other action then one tip displays then they stop. I let the clock display all last night and I never saw any interruptions from tips, ads, weather, etc. as I turned all of them off. However I didn’t try running a skill like White Noise. I would not be surprised if a skill would have a few interruptions over night.

I know the Show 5 is rather limited, but it was worth the money for the clock and to see the lyrics when songs are playing. Anything else is just icing on the cake. It is a bit quirky, but not too bad. It is rather laggy though, but again that is okay for how I’m using it. I do have to get pretty loud for it to hear me, at least compared to my non-screen Echos.

Favorite thing so far is having my own photos rotate (slideshow) behind the clock face. One quirk is that analog clock faces dim my photos but digital clock faces work okay.

ETA: Forgot to mention that the sound is about like my Dot 3s, but it has a 3.5mm out port so I plugged in a good set of stereo speakers I already owned it it rocks!

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