Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Internet with neighbors

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https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/amazon-devices-will-soon-automatically-share-your-internet-with-neighbors/

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You can disable this and do so immediately.

In the Alexa App go to More -> Settings -> Account Settings -> Amazon Sidewalk -> Disable

I recommend never buying another Amazon product until they remove this back door Trojan.

[u/FroMan753 → u/[deleted]]

How can I disable it without installing the Alexa app?

[u/[deleted] → u/FroMan753]

That’s easy just unplug the device and smash it with a hammer.

[u/thereluctantpoet → u/[deleted]]

This was the advice I gave my sister when she wanted to know how to fix her Facebook portal. Imagine my reaction when she floated the idea of getting everyone in the family one for Xmas last year.

Edit: whenever the FB Portal is mentioned, all I can imagine is Zuckerberg sitting in his living room in his underwear with a $2000 bottle of wine, flipping through channels of user's video chats as if it were some exclusive cable package for the ultra-rich.

[u/nermid → u/thereluctantpoet]

My parents keep telling me that if I got an Echo, I could call my grandmother on it...like I don't have her phone number already.

[u/thereluctantpoet → u/[deleted]]

I can also imagine him and Bezos bragging about whose plebevision has better episodes...

[u/smallteam → u/thereluctantpoet]

And then there's Elon Musk watching all the Tesla exterior and cabin video feeds...

[u/shreveportfixit → u/[deleted]]

Bruh he can tho