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Jesus christ! I didn't need another reason to never buy an Amazon device, but you sure gave me one!

Wow that's rich. I already thought the purely functional action confirmations of the Google home are too annoying, but Amazon Alexa straight up tries to re-engage their users and people put up with it?

Google Home does it too. Every once in a while, it gives me the action confirmation and then proceeds to give me advice along the lines of "and by the way, if you ever want me to [do this or that]". If I try to interrupt that charter, it cancels the whole command. I can't find a way to disable that behavior.

Heard from support that replying with negative responses are likely to shut it up.

They track the rate of negative feedback and high negative feedback will kill it over time.