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Originally Posted by DNSB
I did pay for removing ads from my used Kindle after I purchased it. Somehow, it left me feeling unclean.
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I wouldn’t mind the surcharge to remove ads quite as much if the media didn’t carry Amazon’s water on this. It seems to me, in comparing device prices, you have to compare adless with adless. But the reviewers don’t seem to have made that same calculus, and I can’t help wondering if it’s because they don’t want to do anything that will hurt their Amazon income stream.
Speaking for me, personally, I resent the ads. I’ve got an HD 8 and I live with the ads, as it would be insanity to pay $15 to remove the ads on a device I paid $27.50 for. I don’t own a Kindle, but I think if I did, I’d live with the ads on a Paperwhite or Basic, but I’d have to, grudgingly, pay the $20 to take them off an Oasis. Ads have no place on a premium device. But you can be sure I’d add that $20 into any price comparison.