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I guess, yeah I hadn't thought about it in exactly those terms.

Is this like a reverse Turing test?

It used to be much worse. I remember being excluded from group chats in high school because of the color of the chat bubble for android was different or some shit lol

More likely it's doing what Amazon has made it do. So, probably audio recordings and any other sensor data and metrics they can gather

I agree this is likely the culprit. Having read the article though, he seems "sure it's not spying".

Now that I've read it, my question stands.

The guy reporting the issue is a pretty well respected tech YouTuber who helped invent Microsoft Task Manager, so I feel like he'd know to check for that, but it was never explicitly mentioned.

Hopefully he figures it out and does a follow up, I'm curious now.

is this an Echo issue or are these people unwitting members of a botnet?

Disclaimer: Commenting before I've read the article.

I kind of felt this way about Goblin Slayer. I think that's the one, anyway.

A face built for radio

Yes, some of us have good credit.

thanks! me too lol

I hope she suffers when she dies.

That's fair. The more "engaging" something is, the more its effects may mirror that of something "addicting". I'm also thinking about how engagement is a factor of addictive marketing.

The end result though, for me at least, is the same. If I'm engaged in my book, or addicted to my phone, I'm still sitting motionless, staring at a thing, and reading. The difference I suppose is on how hard it is to look away.

I'm glad this is the only social media I really use!

same. There is one windows computer still in this house and it's unplugged. Everything else is Linux, Android, or FreeBSD based.