If you have a smart phone you’ve already submitted to it. They also listen 100% of the time
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Amazon Echo Dot
- Thread starter Wingboy
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If you have a smart phone you’ve already submitted to it. They also listen 100% of the time
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Lots and lots of other ways you can get attached like that - GPS coordinates are one that most people overlook. Lots of apps track your location constantly, and when they see you're in the same vicinity as a friend for a period of time the dots are connected. Next thing you know you see things that they were searching for in ads you're being served.
Are there apps that listen and serve apps based on what it hears? Yep...but it's that's an Android thing. If you value privacy, and to avoid garbage like that which isn't as uncommon as many would like to believe, buy an iPhone.
That said, the "everything is listening to you" thing is vastly overhyped when you take time to investigate the realities, and understand all the other ways you are being marketed to via things like the aforementioned GPS/friends lists/who you interacted with last on Facebook/etc etc etc etc etc ad infinitum.
My phone is off most of the time. I use it almost entirely as a ... phone.
The point is that this is another intrusion that people welcome into their homes and for what?
I get the impression that most people buying these things are of a younger generation who had "devices" in their cribs and thus have never known true privacy and anonymity. They think it's natural to stare into the deathly glow of the cell phone and to have the ever-listening ear of Amazon or Apple of Google there all the time.
Whenever that happens I just report the ads as “sexually inappropriate”.
That's supposed to be covering your brain.Fixed it!
I don't do selfies.
The Google mini has a very "tinny" sound.
Was much more impressed by the sound of the full size Google Home
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The original Amazon echo dot is the same, but the second generation dot (with the fabric ring on the outside) is vastly improved, even for a dot. It's still not as good as the bigger ones of course, but it's still WAY better vs the first gen units. I have 2 first gens and 1 of the second gen (fabric) models and the difference is huge.
wonderings
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My first echo was the original dot and I quickly returned it. Sound was horrible, though that was to be expected from such a small device. I was going to plug into an external speaker but it did not work exactly as I had hoped.
I did pick up the new echo dot around Christmas and like you said it is a HUGE improvement. I plan on picking up a few more when they are on sale to add to a few rooms I do not have anything in.
I use the old dots in places where sound quality doesn't matter much as we are just using it for things like our home automation, or having it read the newsflash or weather.
I placed the second gen dot with the better sound in our living room where we do use it for music on occasion.
I placed the second gen dot with the better sound in our living room where we do use it for music on occasion.
wonderings
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I use mine primarily for music and turning on and off the lights. I really like the stereo setup with the new echo plus and the echo sub. I am no audiophile but it is a very clean sound, no distortion at any volume.
true story. I was having a conversation with a few others and the subject of farting came up. Next day, on my google news feed there were two articles about farting.
Coincidence? I Think Not.
Was sitting in the living room having a beer with a friend. Said I was wondering if Alexa was spying on me. He laughed. I laughed. Alexa laughed.
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