Dh doesn't want an Amazon dot in our room

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Lighthearted! I've just had a discussion (inverted commas type) about getting an Amazon echo for downstairs and a dot for our room. We have a Sonos in there that barely gets used because of the faff with using the app etc.

Suggested that I wanted to buy these with my Xmas money and he made a big thing about it listening in and how he doesn't want that intrusion, particular in the bedroom. He then got cross when I reminded him he sleeps with his iPad and iPhone next to him and then stormed off when I said "Hey Siri" and it chirped up.

Aibu?

With your DH on this it's unnecessary, lazy, intrusive and not coming into my home.

Turns off the microphone with a button? Only records when you say Alexa?!

I'm going to leave this here Amazon Ordered to Produce Alexa Data in Murder Case Investigation and side with your husband.

Another with your DH on this one.

Oh I want one and then I can leave my phone downstairs. Also don't use the sonos anymore as it's too much hassle compared to the alexa, but would like an alarm in the morning and the radio while I'm having coffee/getting dressed.

My dcs will cause havoc though as we have them in lots of rooms.

No to any Alexa devices in our house, and it's another reason no Apple products are here either. They can fuck off with the constant recording.

Is creepy enough that my Android phone occasionally pipes up with a product in advertising that I haven't searched for but have spoken about. I haven't figured out how to switch whatever that is off yet.

I'm with your DH. No devices in the bedroom, it's good to have one room which is free of them. The most high-tech thing we have is an alarm clock/radio which I've had for over 35 years.

My sister gave me one for Christmas. I am horrified. She loves it and uses it loads but I don’t want it in my house.

It's so refreshing to read these comments, I thought I was one of the only people against these devices. Really don't want them in my house. Creeps me out enough when I think of something and then it appears in my Facebook ads, like I literally didn't mention that thing out loud to anyone

I'm with him on this one - I think all of these things are intrusive. What's the point, anyway? I just go to my desk and google stuff when I want to know things, or use my index finger (I still have that, evolution hasn't managed to dispose of it just yet) to press buttons on the music speaker.

We have them, my DH is Tech Man. We also have the 'OK Google' thing, plus the light switch things. I predict that when we are old and decrepit I will be a prisoner in my own home, unable to remember how to switch on the fucking lights. I actually found it easier to press a button to get my radio to come on and I don't like, first thing in the morning, to have to start conversing with OK Google. And what about 'please' and thank you' - my DH says 'please' and 'thank you' to Alexa, I don't - Alexa is not a person. Alexa also doesn't understand my regional accent, Alexa falls over every time we lose internet connection - often, and Alexa is unable to recover things from spotify even if I know they are there. I hate fucking Alexa and OK Googleand that's before I consider whether it is recording our family's conversations/ rantings at Alexa.

We have one but we only switch it on when we want to use it for music, with the app you can view everything that it's recorded and delete it. We've never seen anything untoward from when we first got it and left it on most of the time.

fully with your DH on this, the fact people are paying to insert surveillance in their own private spaces is baffling. My DB works in tech at a reasonably high level and would never have it in the house, he also covers webcam cameras unless using them for the intended purpose.

The amount of info these devices are tracking , recording and logging is mad, and a lot of the time you accept permissions just by setting it up, as with most modern mobile handsets. Before wising up and turning off permissions wherever possible ( and realising i can barely used half the functions of my phone by doing so) I was pretty horrified that checking my google location data showed a plotted map of everywhere i had been since i had the phone, and what date and time, individual shops and everything.

I have a friend that insists I unplug mine when she's visiting

My DH is the same. Refuses to have any kind of Amazon echo as says the "government" have an alterive motive lol then I point out about his phone, Xbox live and tell him the government are already here, which drives him bonkers as I work for the government and he thinks I know something he doesnt 😂😂

DH is also heavily into conspiracy theories and believes the government can control the weather.

I have one in our kitchen and love it, it’s very useful for reminders, timers, radio etc.

No way I would have one in the bedroom for all the reasons people have given.

I wouldn't have one. I'm also sat sitting here tryping away on my laptop with a bit of duct tape covering the camera.

I’m feeling a bit guilty as a client gave me an Echo at Christmas. I unwrapped it but haven’t even taken it out of the box as I’m a bit WTF about it. I’m freaked out enough by what my phone seems to know about me, without inviting something else into the house.

Haha, golden, I have a post-it on mine if I’m not actively using it as well.

My DH bought one for our kitchen/dining room - no discussion. He dismisses my concerns about it recording - says he’s deactivated it on his app (or something). I turn it off when he’s not around but it’s started to cause friction as when he goes to use it it’s turned off. It’s actually quite reassuring to know that my concerns aren’t unfounded.

I've about 6 in the house!! 🤫

I'm another one that refuses to have Alexa in my house. Over my dead body! Hate them. I cannot believe people voluntarily pay to have electronic surveillance 24/7

Still gobsmacked that these marketing people convinced people to PAY to have a listening device in their homes

I'm with your DH too. My phone stays downstairs too.

Ok I may seem thick but what is the purpose of these Alexa things. I don't get it,

We had two. One in living room one in bedroom. Tech mad DH.

They turn on occasionally and spout adverts, or think you’ve asked something when you haven’t. No big deal you say. Well I hated it, it felt intrusive.

I insisted we get rid of it when my husband was away with work, I was cuddling the children in my bed (it was evening but not late), and she turned on and started gabbling some bollocks about missing loved ones and buying presents for them (I think it was triggered by Fathers Day coming up).

The children were screaming and freaked out, I kept saying shut up Alexa to no avail and it was genuinely horrible. Couldn’t work out how to stop her just turning herself on so I unplugged both of them and buried them in a box in the loft I went a bit overboard but fuck she REALLY creeped me out.