The New Kindle Fire Has Ads and You Cant Opt Out

We hope you like the screensaver ads on Amazon's new Kindle Fire lineup because you're stuck with them.

Amazon is including its Special Offers and Sponsored Screensavers in its updated Kindle Fire as well as its Kindle Fire HD tablets. As Amazon states, these offers display "on the lock screen and lower left hand corner of the home screen," meaning they won't interfere with the device itself or appear in other apps.

Amazon first started implementing Special Offers on its traditional Kindle e-reader's back in 2011. The program was originally designed as a way for users to save money off the price of a Kindle, in exchange for allowing ads to appear on the screensaver and at the bottom o…
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