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Old 09-17-2015, 10:51 PM   #792
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Originally Posted by koland View Post
I find it and google voice search and alexa annoying and invasive. I turn off immediately and would remove if it were possible. Instead, it's just bloatware eating up memory that could be used for better purposes.
I guess I can I see how one, from a certain point of view, might call any feature of any product that they don't personally use 'bloat.' Like if you never have a passenger in your car, you might call the passenger seat 'bloat.'
But I can't see how the word 'invasive' applies here. In all cases you'd need to explicitly choose to use the feature, and that feature is just an alternate interface method for a device you'd have chosen to own, which is purpose-built to be a smart, Internet connected data appliance.
That would be like paying someone to come to your house, ordering him inside, then calling him an invader when he does.

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