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Re:Why Alexa won't wake up when she hears her name in ads (2... by mabbo on Monday January 16, 2023 @02:45PM (#34404680)
> Amazon has been subsidizing it in the hope that people would buy stuff on a moment's whim any time of the day.

I think the deeper issue is that when Amazon started the product (I heard rumours of it circa 2014 or so?) Amazon was a trusted retailed. Stuff was cheap and generally good. Now it's a scummy marketplace filled with fakes and frauds. I'm not buying anything off it until I've deeply reviewed what I'm about to buy.

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Re:Why Alexa won't wake up when she hears her name in ads (2... by krasin on Monday January 16, 2023 @03:13PM (#34404957)
> I'm not buying anything off it until I've deeply reviewed what I'm about to buy.

<...> and even then you might get a fake from due to commingled inventory. Even for books ([1], [2], [3]).

1. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6920552...

2. https://twitter.com/burkov/status/1369096357252849664

3. https://hairysun.com/amazons-book-piracy-problem.html

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