A Tale of Unwanted Disruption: My Week Without Amazon

Re:A Tale of Unwanted Disruption: My Week Without Amazon by boneitis on Monday June 12, 2023 @06:26PM (#36302170)

> the Eufy doorbell had issued an automated response: "Excuse me, can I help you?"

(No intent to discredit or argue against TFA's primary points)

Maybe I'm misreading the.. tone? I think I'd be pretty (as in, very) mortified if my smart doorbell spoke this, let alone even have an automated response at all? (Although, I don't really use smart appliances, if that's relevant.)

(Or, when employing the automated response, I'd probably care to make sure it's fairly apparent that it's a machine, on a quick second-pass thought.)

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Re:A Tale of Unwanted Disruption: My Week Without Amazon by jacamera on Monday June 12, 2023 @07:02PM (#36302608)

Agreed! Doesn't justify anything that Amazon did in this case but it sounds like a pretty off-putting "feature".

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Re:A Tale of Unwanted Disruption: My Week Without Amazon by odysseus on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @07:23PM (#36412150)

I wonder if Eufy allows you to turn that off.

My doorbell is completely silent and I like it that way. The only reason I’d use such a feature is to scare away a package thief if nobody was home.

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