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If that makes it more palatable for you, then I understand why you need to prioritize this level of reasoning.

Amazon culture is fail fast. Not many products at Amazon last this long, boasting multi-billion dollar losses YoY. Name another product at Amazon that does this, for this long.

To be sure, it's not shadowy. You can track awarded contracts. You can track employment of persons from 3-5 letter agencies into private sector. You can look on Amazon Science page from 2019, where plans for "ambient intelligence" begin.

Voice command on volume modulation used to work. Then Video, Music, Shopping and Home Automation built a "revamped" Alexa system and broke it. This is also why people struggle to turn of alarms, why Alexa Pay broke, among many other service-side performance degradations.

Pretty cringe, the number of people who were promoted for this.

10/10 not worth working for Amazon.

Please realize, for this to be true, there must be another incentive. I.e., Alexa devices are government-subsidized spyware.

What are the advantages for Amazon?

- Mic-popping, Camera-popping, mobile phone backdoor access, network sniffing, device activity monitoring across all wifi/bluetooth connected networks.

- Sidewalk (remember this? Amazon "borrows" your wifi, for free...)

Unplug Alexa devices. Remove the Alexa app from your phone, and factory reset. Otherwise you remain complicit in Amazon surveillance of you and everyone that interacts with you.

Not any more. Majority of talent got fired. Whoever is hired now will be gone in a couple years (says the internal tracking software that tells you how "new" you are across all of Amazon). That kind of churn ensures no real progress can be made.

Just throw Alexa away already. It's a wrap.

You'd be incorrect. Amazon Music is not as valuable as people think, compounded by the fact that it helps foot the bill for Alexa. It's only right though, seeing as Music helped completely break Alexa internally. Repeatedly.

"The plaintiff had not shown which Amazon ads she relied on to believe there was “free delivery” from Amazon-owned Whole Foods, the judge said. Lin also said the service fee for deliveries was shown on two webpages during the checkout process."

The plaintiff could have solicited the public for assistance, e.g., asked for screenshots showing the evidence. Because there's definitely evidence of this.

One solution is to throw out all those Ring cameras and get local storage solutions. After all, your data should belong to you.

This perhaps explains why I couldn't successfully submit the change of address forms while my ad and tracker blocker was on. Why is this legal?

If they allowed the tracking pixels, they intentionally shared the data. We all know what the tracking pixels do.

It's interesting that the workers don't want to be victims of the surveillance tech they build. Hmm...

Isn't the head of Open AI involved in the "regulation" process? Seems a bit sketchy...

It's painful isn't it? It really brings home the meaning of "quality over quantity."

My statement is most certainly factual. Don't assert what you don't know.

BTW, if you can hack Astro, you can hack Alexa...