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Alexa Is in Millions of Households—and Amazon Is Losing Billions (www.wsj.com)
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[–] BobbyNevada@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I asked Alexa what the weather was like, and they shoe horned a sponsorship.

[–] thr0w4w4y2@sh.itjust.works 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

“drink a verification can to continue”

[–] BobbyNevada@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 4 months ago

"it's the thirst mutilator!"

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 5 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Was it by the way? Say "Alexa, turn off 'by the way'."

[–] tacosplease@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Thank you for this

[–] BobbyNevada@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 months ago

No, it was like "weather is brought to you by." Can I not remember the rest because I was blinded by rage . I didn't even hear the weather. It only happened once.

[–] BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They caught on to that and now you gotta setup a routine that automatically disables it every 24 hours because it now auto re-enables itself after a while.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago

I disabled mine... I don't know when. Maybe a year ago or so? It's still off. I get your point but it's definitely not required. It's been months and it hasn't come back on. I don't think the effort of setting up a routine is worth it (with the current rate it re-enables).