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Amazon is forcibly upgrading Prime members to Alexa Plus, and users are not happy
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this post was submitted on 13 Jan 2026
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Maybe I'm now in the minority, but I never bought a spy speaker, or bought spy cameras to attach to my house, inside or out.
My suggestion is, if you have them, get rid of them. But, I'm probably just an old man yelling at clouds, and am safe to ignore. Carry on.
Yeah - do you have a tv? It is a smart one right? With the wiretap built in?
You allow your TV to access the internet?
I tried to, the clients were so awful I bought a streaming stick. Now it just spies on me. without trying to hide a pc near my tv, and work out a remote control that's not an awful keyboard and mouse there aren't a lot of good options.
The TV is blocked, the streaming device is pieholed as best i can. I'm sure someone still knows I watch an unhealthy amount of Futurama.
I have a life and don't have time setting up networks. Yes it's wired to the internet
I have two smart TVs in the house, but they don't have access to my network. I don't use the smart features.
No. I haven't had a TV since around 2000. I use monitors, and always have an extra laying around if needed.
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. 😞
Get commercial hardware. It's more expensive new, but dirt cheap used, and they don't include any of the spy equipment.
Commercial tv? Doesn't exist
Actually they do. We use them for menu boards all the time. Totally different software in them even.
They do, they just call them display panels.
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!
My "smart"TV is not online at all but I still see ads that seem targeted for the most part. OTA is a dying platform I think, though