Anyone else refuse to have an Alexa

[Anonymous]

has anyone actually felt as if Alexa was listening to their convo?

[Anonymous]

Alexa is not always listening. The blue ring comes on when it hears the wake word, rightly or wrongly. You can log into the app and see the conversations that Alexa picks up or records

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Alexa is not always listening. The blue ring comes on when it hears the wake word, rightly or wrongly. You can log into the app and see the conversations that Alexa picks up or records

How does it hear the wake word if it's not already listening?

[Anonymous]

I personally don’t understand the point of one if our phone literally does everything that it does.

[Anonymous]

I don't want one, but I'll admit to being a late adopter of most tech.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Alexa is not always listening. The blue ring comes on when it hears the wake word, rightly or wrongly. You can log into the app and see the conversations that Alexa picks up or records

How does it hear the wake word if it's not already listening?

I'm wondering this too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Alexa is not always listening. The blue ring comes on when it hears the wake word, rightly or wrongly. You can log into the app and see the conversations that Alexa picks up or records

How does it hear the wake word if it's not already listening?

I'm wondering this too.

It is listening but it's not recording anything. It's not like there are people at Amazon sitting around just listening to random conversations waiting to hear "Alexa".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes. And disabled Siri.

This, except I turn it on in the car to use Carplay. I'm usually alone in there though

[Anonymous]

I'm sorry, I do not know that one.

[Anonymous]

My office requires it to be off when working from home. That was enough of a warning to me,

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I personally don’t understand the point of one if our phone literally does everything that it does.

Rd basically a good speaker. It sounds way better than a phone. Sure get a Bluetooth speaker and deal with fidgeting with that to listen to some music. PITA.

[Anonymous]

I am more resistant due to aversion to consumerism than because of privacy. I hate the thought of upgrading yet another electronic as needed (an article I read said standalone speakers like Alexa will soon be out date, as speakers will be built into everything). And the thought of telling Alexa to buy something is gross to me for some reason. But I did read about some nice ways to use it for parenting, e.g., you can program it to call your child out for yelling to you from another room.

[Anonymous]

Yes we use Google because we are more high tech

[Anonymous]

Not me. Also, Siri is disabled.

[Anonymous]

I don't have one. I don't have a smart TV or smart anything, nor a fitbit. It was a big deal when I got my Furbo camera, which I turn off/ cover/ point toward the wall when we are home. I guess I just don't understand the need for all the gadgets and technology.