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Amazon plans to charge for Alexa in June—unless internal conflict delays revamp | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This is a misleading headline. It's not talking about the existing Alexa products suddenly requiring a subscription for them to work, no the rumor is talking about a subscription for their upcoming higher tier Alexa Plus service with more advanced capabilities that's based on generative AI.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Fuck subscriptions either way.

Don't have an alexa and don't want one

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (3 children)

As long as processing is offloaded to the cloud, something's gotta pay for it, either a subscription or your personal data.

Problem is, I don't trust Amazon to not double dip, so fuck 'em.

We need offline personal assistants, support Home Assistant.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Exactly, the problem is that even if you pay for the subscription, they will still use your data for their profit. Big companies are so abusive...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I mean I thought the whole point of Alexa was to make you buy more stuff from Amazon?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

For speech recognition there is also heywillow.io

[–] [email protected] -4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don't even have an Amazon account, I don't care what they want to do.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Then why comment?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I dislike your comment, I dislike the Amazon business model, that's why I'm saying I don't even have an Amazon account. Then, I don't care whatever they do, still I want to get informed of tech news. Any other question? btw -> https://www.amazon.com/privacy/data-deletion