I couldn't find my slippers one morning. In frustration, I began bitching, "Where the hell are my slippers? Damn it!" Suddenly, the Android whatzitz -- Alexa? I don't know, It came with the device -- started, "Once there was an old man with Alzheimer's who lost his slippers . . . "
OMG! I freaking HIT THE ROOF! I began yelling at it, "WTH?! Get the hell out of here! I never want to hear another word out of you EVER AGAIN!" and a bunch of other things I won't repeat; I was furious. And I had never activated the damn thing, which was my deliberate choice!
It went and hid -- I kid you not! Because I went through all my files, folders and apps looking for it to delete it, but it was nowhere to be found -- which only made me angrier. About a week later, I decided to look again and Lo! And behold! There it was, right there in my apps where it most certainly was NOT a week earlier: I hadn't been able to find it even with the search function.
I "deleted" it, of course. Yeah. It's gone . . . suuuuuuure it is.
And when the IOT gets rolling, it'll get even worse -- everything will be listening to us, everywhere, and there will not even be the pretense of an offer to turn it off. We're going to learn how goldfish feel, except we won't even have plastic plants and castles to hide in.
I've had similar things happen to me before. A few times I was having a conversation about something and the exact advertisement for what I was talking about popped up on my phone within minutes. All phones/tablets are listening to you.
Called and talked to google corporate about their shenanigans.
They told me if I don't like it, don't do business with google. It's my fault. They don't care AND blame us. Google bought the billion dollar city fiber optic network for $1. They gave "free" internet a few years now are charging everybody now that they shut down the last remaining local ISP.
Give up the convenice for the free conscience. Block google today. They are a religion and political ideology getting bent on world domination. Evil!
I couldn't find my slippers one morning. In frustration, I began bitching, "Where the hell are my slippers? Damn it!" Suddenly, the Android whatzitz -- Alexa? I don't know, It came with the device -- started, "Once there was an old man with Alzheimer's who lost his slippers . . . "
OMG! I freaking HIT THE ROOF! I began yelling at it, "WTH?! Get the hell out of here! I never want to hear another word out of you EVER AGAIN!" and a bunch of other things I won't repeat; I was furious. And I had never activated the damn thing, which was my deliberate choice!
It went and hid -- I kid you not! Because I went through all my files, folders and apps looking for it to delete it, but it was nowhere to be found -- which only made me angrier. About a week later, I decided to look again and Lo! And behold! There it was, right there in my apps where it most certainly was NOT a week earlier: I hadn't been able to find it even with the search function.
I "deleted" it, of course. Yeah. It's gone . . . suuuuuuure it is.
And when the IOT gets rolling, it'll get even worse -- everything will be listening to us, everywhere, and there will not even be the pretense of an offer to turn it off. We're going to learn how goldfish feel, except we won't even have plastic plants and castles to hide in.
I've had similar things happen to me before. A few times I was having a conversation about something and the exact advertisement for what I was talking about popped up on my phone within minutes. All phones/tablets are listening to you.
Called and talked to google corporate about their shenanigans.
They told me if I don't like it, don't do business with google. It's my fault. They don't care AND blame us. Google bought the billion dollar city fiber optic network for $1. They gave "free" internet a few years now are charging everybody now that they shut down the last remaining local ISP.
Give up the convenice for the free conscience. Block google today. They are a religion and political ideology getting bent on world domination. Evil!