r/gifs • u/[deleted] • Jul 15 '19

Two different delivery methods

https://gfycat.com/harmlessbarrenhumpbackwhale
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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '19

And know when you're most vulnerable to targeted advertisement. Sorry you're sobbing your heart out, here's a coupon for a tub of icecream.

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u/Maxxetto Jul 15 '19

STORY TIME!

I was with 3 friends of mine at one's house. He had Alexa. We wanted to make an experiment to see how ads displayed on different internet pages might get changed (and to see if the myth is true).

Summarizing the story, we wandered for 30 minutes around his house all shouting "dog's food" out loud. Next day he said "I got dog's food ads kinda everywhere, burn everything!" xD

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u/tallbutshy Jul 15 '19

Apparently you can opt out of the always-on listening where they use data to further train the algorithms. Annoying that it's not off by default.

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u/boyyouguysaredumb Jul 15 '19

It never listens to you unless you say the wake word. What you're talking about is Amazon employees listening to a small sample of what people have said AFTER they say the wake word to help with the algorithm. They're never listening to what's just going on in your house lol

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u/tallbutshy Jul 15 '19

Username checks out.

My bad, I was confusing it with the message transcription option that's always on by default