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Amazon is killing a privacy feature to bolster Alexa+, the new subscription assistant.

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[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

If I had an Alexa box, the only privacy feature I would trust would be a switch to physically disconnect the microphone.

[–] LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 2 points 13 hours ago

The only alexa I trust is a smashed one

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

That’s how they got me. I decided Siri was acceptable since I could set it to only listen when I pressed a button. Now somehow there’s an echo device in every room