Dh doesn't want an Amazon dot in our room

[cheesenpickles]

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?

I'm with your dh - we will not have one in the house!

Hook - Internet
Line - MySpace way back when .. just testing the water .. then .. FACEBOOK!
Sinker - Alexa, echo , dot etc
And here's the clincher folks. . How about instead of demanding information , we can get people to scramble to give it to us ... and ... pay us for the privilege!

I mean ....... !?

Sorry incase I was unclear .. I would never have one of 'those' in my house

YABU. Nobody has ever been sent conversations recorded from iPhone / iPad to random strangers security is pretty tight on Apple devices.

There is not enough tin foil in the world to keep up with the demand for hats on this thread

Alexa is in our bedroom. She hasn't sold the government any secrets yet 😂

Husband put one in our bedroom and I’ve unplugged it. I’m a techy and there are far too many stories of random calls, conversations being shared for my liking. We don’t need it upstairs, and it can go in his office when he finally notices

I’ve got 4 Google Homes.
If they want to listen to what I’m saying then there we go.

I like mine. It’s in the kitchen though, not the bedroom.

Should I ever murder my DH I now know not to use the kitchen. Even though that seems the most logical space tbh.

Do all you people saying no to alexa use loyalty cards? If so you are giving Tesco and the likes HUGE amounts of personal data every time you shop. Likewise with practically every search engine you use

I'm not a tin foil hat person, never have been but you're a bit naive if you think they don't listen.
They wake up and respond to "alert words".
Plus an article the other day where police have requested Amazon to release any possible recordings etc... see has already been linked up thread.
It's like how people blindly add apps on their phone or play mindless FB quizzes about what kind of animal would you be etc without reading what you're actually giving them permission for.
When you look, some want your location, your email contacts, friend list, and profile. Even if you're "locked down."
Video calling you have to enable the mike. Soon as I enabled that, was getting ads popping up of random conversations even if had never googled.
I don't since disabling.
They do listen.

I know how loyalty cards work and social media.

I draw the line at installing listening devices in my bedroom. It's not that weird a position to take.

Totally the same @maisypops. Data collection isn't the same as allowing potential listening devices

Loyalty cards=They know what I buy and when and how I pay.
Search engine=They know what I (or someonenearby) search for.
Alexa=They know what everyone in my home is saying .

@PavlovaFaith

Alexa is in our bedroom. She hasn't sold the government any secrets yet

How do you know?

YANBU. I don't want one in my house either, I don't get the actual point of them and for all the many reasons listed above feel quite uncomfortable about them.

Also, without being all feng shui about it: The less technology in the bedroom the better, I think, on the whole. All our devices and gadgets and TVs and now 'personal assistants' charging and buzzing and whirring.....how is it all conducive to a good night's sleep?

@randomchap anyone with any smart device owning a microphone is in the same boat. I honestly can't see why people have such a fear of these devices. The personification has freaked people out.

No Pavlova, a phone can be put away or turned off. You don't interactverbally with it all the time. Alexa is meant to be kept in a central location in your home and permanently on so that you can talk to it when you need something, That's the whole point of it.

my life is so mundane, I don't give a toss about Amazon GDPR breaches and sending things like. "It's Mac n cheese tonight" or "take the recycling out" or" could you please stop being mean to your sister".

There's enough cameras videoing me daily, just going for a shop at Tesco's

It's not the device people are "fearing" it's the potential for governments and companies to get more information about our private lives (and to control us ) that people are on concered about.

Also, I don"t think it's healthy to be so dependent on a device to remind you to do basic things (someone even said Alexa tells her children when to go to bed),

disney how about if your life insurance premium went up because you cook macaroni
Cheese too often?

No way is a listening device coming into my bedroom. In fact, I can see me slowly backing away from tech stuff as I get older.

God yes printer I dread to think what life insurance companies would make of me and DH's binge drinking and cheese eating lifestyles. I can see our premiums going up every time we said 'camembert' and 'stilton'. Perhaps code words are the way forward?

Or just not have one of the little listening bastards.

Anybody who takes Macaroni Cheese into the bedroom needs to be put on a watchlist, or possibly to write memoirs. I'm not sure which!

@Printerneedsink - damn, don't be telling me that lol. Not getting one now or ever but ..
Do you think it'll work on the teenager?
Programme it to tell the wee shite to get to bed at a reasonable hour especially on a school night lol

@disneyspendingmoney .. username checks out!