> all of their Amazon Devices (echo, alexa automation, etc) were also non-functional

Great way of not-selling those.

I already not-bought Kindle because of the Orwell debacle way back when. Not-buying any echo/alexa stuff is clearly the way to go too. I just buy from the store occasionally.

Same for Google properties, I don't do squat on anything other than Gmail, don't want that messed up.