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

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thr0w4w4y2@sh.itjust.works
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“drink a verification can to continue”

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BobbyNevada@discuss.tchncs.de
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“it’s the thirst mutilator!”

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JackbyDev@programming.dev
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Was it by the way? Say “Alexa, turn off ‘by the way’.”

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tacosplease@lemmy.world
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Thank you for this

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BobbyNevada@discuss.tchncs.de
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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.

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BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one
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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.

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JackbyDev@programming.dev
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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).

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