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Turn off these 5 Alexa features for more privacy

Amazon’s digital assistant has a long list of great features, but these five can be intrusive. Your Amazon Echo smart speaker or Echo Show smart display will work better once you ditch them.

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  1. Jackson Chen

    September 21, 2020 at 12:01 pm

    First

  2. AKSHAT GAMING

    September 21, 2020 at 12:06 pm

    First

    • Flippin tomato

      September 21, 2020 at 12:14 pm

      Not first

  3. DMG70

    September 21, 2020 at 12:08 pm

    Hey Siri

  4. Flippin tomato

    September 21, 2020 at 12:14 pm

    Hey not first

  5. smackachicken

    September 21, 2020 at 12:21 pm

    why let them spy on you

  6. The Random STvFF

    September 21, 2020 at 12:24 pm

    i just liked this video because of the cat

  7. EFCONNECT

    September 21, 2020 at 12:50 pm

    “Hunches” sounds like a great name for a cat.

  8. Rodolpho's Tech channel

    September 21, 2020 at 1:00 pm

    Why Americans are obssesed with their privacy lol when clearly they are the ones most spied on by government…I mean all nations are similar. I have nothing to hide

    • respdoc

      September 21, 2020 at 3:59 pm

      Because some couch potatoes watch too many TV shows and think their activities are more important to others than it really is. No one, including the government, cares to learn about their Hello Kitty fetishes.

  9. Alexa

    September 21, 2020 at 1:16 pm

    Hehe????

  10. Robert Gotschall

    September 21, 2020 at 2:41 pm

    I guess I’ll have to root this thing to get rid of Bimbo?

  11. Hamish Dix

    September 21, 2020 at 2:51 pm

    Liked for cat

  12. Jon Vanausdeln

    September 21, 2020 at 3:22 pm

    Drop in’s are great for my family.. and what idiot what just leave it open to all users? Don’t turn it off, just change the permissions.

  13. Mr Egusi

    September 21, 2020 at 3:46 pm

    How do we turn off the CIA feature?

    • respdoc

      September 21, 2020 at 3:55 pm

      Settings: Tin Foil Hat : On

    • Jim Dubya

      September 21, 2020 at 11:51 pm

      What are you doing that would have the CIA interested ?

  14. DifficultNerd

    September 21, 2020 at 3:55 pm

    I decided this was a trustworthy video because cat.

  15. Ashish Nagar

    September 21, 2020 at 6:01 pm

    He loves his job.

  16. Steve Daily

    September 21, 2020 at 7:32 pm

    Probably won’t kill you

    Hahaha

    Dave…. Dave… ?

  17. The Desi Vegan

    September 21, 2020 at 7:43 pm

    The only thing I use it for is reading my textbook while I follow along and highlight in Notability.

  18. Michael Hughes

    September 21, 2020 at 7:58 pm

    Why are you still using the older version of the Alexa app? The ‘More’ = icon is now located at bottom right. Been in lockdown too long?

  19. Voice Spark Alexa & More

    September 21, 2020 at 9:14 pm

    Excellent advice I also read the article! Personal privacy is a personal responsibility.

  20. Andrey Lucas

    September 21, 2020 at 11:07 pm

    Good morning, NSA. How is the weather?

  21. Graham Quigley

    September 22, 2020 at 1:12 am

    How about the yellow ring that shows up when my package gets delivered at work

  22. Miriam Papageorgio

    September 22, 2020 at 8:12 pm

    Ha ha! I LOVE the drop in feature, and use it all the time to get my kids downstairs or if I’m home and want to say hi to them!

  23. Petra - wir uns kennenlernen

    September 23, 2020 at 4:37 am

    0:16 hervorragend

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