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Amazon is forcibly upgrading Prime members to Alexa Plus, and users are not happy (www.androidauthority.com)
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  • Alexa users who are Amazon Prime members are reportedly being automatically upgraded to Alexa Plus.
  • Users who have been upgraded can revert to the old Alexa by saying, “Alexa, exit Alexa Plus.”
  • One user claims that they were “flooded with ads” after downgrading back to Alexa.
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[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Even monitors are being equipped with spyware “smart” features. It seems a matter of time before all new monitors are spyware and adware Trojans like TVs. 😞

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Get commercial hardware. It's more expensive new, but dirt cheap used, and they don't include any of the spy equipment.

[–] sommerset@thelemmy.club -1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Commercial tv? Doesn't exist

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They do, they just call them display panels.

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I was just looking into this and I’m surprised I hadn’t heard about it before. It makes sense that businesses wouldn’t tolerate that nonsense. Thank you for the life hack, it will be very useful!

[–] titanicx@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

Actually they do. We use them for menu boards all the time. Totally different software in them even.