[SebRollen]

The constant "By the way..." from Alexa drove me nuts.

If you say "Alexa, stop by the way", it'll get the device to stop responding with follow-ups for ~24h. I ended up creating a routine that runs every night at 4am to lower the volume to zero, automatically say "stop by the way" to the device, and then raise the volume a minute later, and Alexa has stopped with the follow ups

[phillco]

I just discovered this today, but if you whisper to your Echo, it will skip all of the "by the way" BS (it will also reply in a whisper, which is kind of creepy, but you win some, you lose some).

[0cf8612b2e1e]

Is it actually lowering the volume or is it fake whispering at the same decibels? I could kind of believe either.