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Re:Amazon Alexa is a “colossal failure,” on pace to lose $10... by teeray on Monday November 21, 2022 @10:10PM (#33701293)
Clearly, the answer is to have Alexa read a random unprompted ad every 5 minutes.
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Re:Amazon Alexa is a “colossal failure,” on pace to lose $10... by thepasswordis on Monday November 21, 2022 @10:20PM (#33701369)
It already does a form of this. You might ask it the time, and it will reply with the time and some ad telling you about other things that it can do.

It’s really annoying.

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Re:Amazon Alexa is a “colossal failure,” on pace to lose $10... by xirdstl on Monday November 21, 2022 @10:24PM (#33701403)
Agreed, though fortunately it silences quickly upon “Alexa, shut up”
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Re:Amazon Alexa is a “colossal failure,” on pace to lose $10... by jahewson on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @12:05AM (#33702191)
Maybe it could softly whisper it, like a gentle breeze: “buy more shoooes, buy more shoooes”.
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