Maybe I'm not sufficiently hardware-savvy, but what's the downside here? I am more or less in the market for a modest tablet, but I'm indifferent to whether it comes from Amazon. Can someone recommend a better deal?
From what I could tell, (at least) the $50 Fire is currently ad supported, and by default Amazon Underground is ad supported as well.
You can pay an additional $15 and get the version that's not ad supported. When you click configure and add to cart you are presented with that as the first option.