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by temp_account_32 1303 days ago
The other morning, Alexa had a yellow notification. I asked her to read it, but I was still groggy in bed, so barely listening to what she was saying.

I only registered the phrase 'do you want me to add this to your basket?' at the end. No idea what it was, but she was trying to randomly sell me stuff while I'm chilling at home.

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They thought they’d get you to put an Alexa in your home (perhaps at a loss) but that it would bring you into the ecosystem and you’d buy more stuff. But most people just use it for the 1 or 2 things they bought it for like alarm clock and weather.