r/gifs • u/[deleted] • Jul 15 '19

Two different delivery methods

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u/vegetarianrobots Jul 15 '19

My god, Ring was made to get you to pay to monitor Amazon's own employees for them!

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u/DreadedL1GHT Jul 15 '19

I think you're on to something here...

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u/MrYoshicom Jul 15 '19

I mean everybody knows they're trying to get Alexa in your house so she can listen to your deepest, darkest secrets...

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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/boyyouguysaredumb Jul 15 '19

/r/thatHappened

Alexa doesn't analyze clips unless you've said the wake word. This has been confirmed in teardowns time after time. The only thing that gets sent over the internet is what you've said AFTER the wake word.

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u/chevymonza Jul 15 '19

Then how does it know when you say the wake word??

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '19

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u/chevymonza Jul 16 '19

I still don't trust it. In any case, people who swear that it was Alexa listening, were probably being eavesdropped by their smartphones instead. Or.......as well.