My kids ask Alexa to pull there finger and are most amused she blows rasberries at them.Not that I’m ever at home long enough for it to bother me, but OH flatly refuses to have an Alexa in the house, for the sole reason that every time I walked past it I’d say: “Alexa, F*** Off!!” Childish, but true .
And I’ve recently deactivated my faceache account because I found it quite unnerving that people I’d never heard of seemed to have access to whatever I posted, despite me not making them public .
The voice recognition wouldn't work unless they were listening all the time.
fancy tech stuff...
I'm quite proud of the fact that i have never had a faceless acount and never will. My digital footprint is tiny compared to most.
It's a tool.Same here
I hate social media and the durge behind it
It's a tool.
Treat it as such and it's ok.
Use FB for company page and local selling pages.
No Twitter etc here mind.
Some people's lives revolve around it though
Don't know about Apple...I trust them even less the rotters.
Though I've turned Google voice recognition off it's very good at picking up what I'm saying.My iPhone is quite old now, I have to press the home button to wake up Sirri and even then she never understands what I want. For that matter I can't get the voice commands on the Parrot to work in the car, not even easy stuff like answer or reject a call and that is after it has prompted what to say.
I think I am safe.
I have an Alexa. The kids love it.
I hope Amazon enjoy listening to my kids arguing and me bitching about customers.
Ah, a little knowledge...
This is how they actually work: A very small subroutine is running continually on the device. That subroutine runs locally and has no connection to the outside world. Prove that for yourself by turning off the router and see that nothing changes.
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Who's to say the subroutine doesn't check for an internet connection and if it finds one sends data to Google HQ, if it doesn't find one it just skips that step?
Fair enough for Alexa, interesting, don't have one, not interested, don't have a Google life intruder either, or Facebook, or twitstagram or snapblether.
Surely your android phone is always listening though? The two trigger phrases are "hey Google" or "ok Google", which opens the assistant "app"...if it's not always listening (by default) how else does it tailor advertising to things you've only talked about?
My wife and I have tested it out...as well as numerous YouTube videos. Just talking about something with your phone nearby without saying the trigger phrases, the word Google or having assistant open will tailor the advertising.
*Amazon.
@ajlelectronics do you have a source for this? I'm interested in reading more but can't find anything...apart from Amazon hiring people to listen to Alexa recordings.