The Terrible Truth About Alexa

"Why doesn't it work this way?"

"Why doesn't Amazon do this thing?"

"Why, why, why?"

Umm, why did you buy one in the first place, and after such revelations, why do you continue to have one in your house? Instead of just listing reasons that one should not buy such a device, the article came across to me as, "man, I really love this Alexa thing, but it creeps me out. Why can't Amazon...?" rather than just throw the thing in the trash if it bothers you that much.

Actually, the terrible truth about gizmodo is the praise they gave to amazon echo show. why do these publications have 'cognitive dissonance'? Please. https://gizmodo.com/the-amazon-echo-show-is-the-best-dumb-sm...

While it's possible to request from Amazon everything that they (claim to) have on their servers from our Alexa devices, it would be better if there was some way to explicitly deafen the devices. I had been using my Echo dot primary as an audio source to my living room speakers. But since it's not possible to know when the room audio is being piped back to Amazon I unplugged it. If there was a way to explicitly not wake to an audio prompt but only to a touch command I would consider plugging it back in... but I really don't trust it. So these days my living room speakers are fed by a very old iPod touch.