r/mildlyinfuriating • u/notworkingghost • 8h ago

Ruined by Technology When we’re not looking, Alexa displays the wrong time. I finally caught her on video.

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u/BigDeuceNpants 8h ago

We have one. It has a slide you use to cover the camera. Ours stays unplugged unless we want a radio or make a call while cooking or something. Hopefully the wife will get rid of it soon.

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u/send_fleet_pics 8h ago

uh get a radio and use speakerphone? wtf do you need the spyware for

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u/lost_horizons 8h ago

Your smartphone is spyware too.

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u/cardiganfan2015 7h ago

Apple is way more secure and privacy-oriented than Amazon. Worlds of difference.

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u/istheremore7 7h ago

They're great at marketing that's for sure

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u/Capybarinya_nya 7h ago

well, no one need more of it, do they

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u/MotoJoker 7h ago

Yeah you are crazy if you think this is the only thing tracking you. I hope you are commenting this from a library PC and you carry around a pager and have the few remaining local pay phone locations memorized cause that device in your pocket is tracking far more than these things.

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u/send_fleet_pics 7h ago

I'm writing on a Fairphone with degoogled Android. Also the idea that just because some things are spying on you, you should get even more things that spy on you, is stupid as fuck.

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u/3DigitIQ 7h ago

☝️💯

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u/MotoJoker 7h ago

You are still getting tracked my guy. I don’t have a home device or anything akin to it, but I don’t see how it’s any different from the tracking device in everyone’s pocket. Whole thing is unavoidable at this point.

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u/Spid1 7h ago

Do you have a tinfoil hat too?

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u/BigDeuceNpants 7h ago

She wanted one and now keeps it unplugged. I just let her do her thing. And can’t exactly select the exact song you want on the radio.

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u/send_fleet_pics 7h ago

You said radio. So is she just uses it as a speaker, why not just get... a speaker?? me no understando

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u/BigDeuceNpants 7h ago

You can tell it what songs to play. Set reminders. Crap like that. She used it for a bit now it’s unplugged. I dunno what she does. I can’t read minds. I let her do what she wants.