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Literally can't stay ahead of it.
My kid re-activated prime on me a long time ago, before I had even started thinking about parental controls, by selecting a movie on the Kindle Fire playing with the remote.
Thought I'd learned my lesson, but no. Couple years later he reactivated Audible by asking the thermostat to read him a story. He was probably like 4 or 5 by then. Not only reactivated Audible, but wasted a credit on The Three Little Pigs
I'm so confused how these devices ended up subscribing you to these services without further validation.
I use mainly Google products and I don't think I can even subscribe to audible if I tried, by voice alone.
Were these Amazon devices or something? I'm really confused.
Yes, Kindle Fire TV and Ecobee thermostat (with Alexa).
And for the record, I hate Alexa, or at least the version in my thermostat. Alexa makes Google nests look like a Nobel laureate.
These were also reactivations, so they already had all our account info, and entirely inside Amazons walled garden.
Well, that at least mostly explains it.
But giving the ability for Alexa to activate paid services is kind of crazy to me.