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I always have some amount of tension weighing privacy with the pragmatic usefulness of Alexa. I use the Bible skill to have Alexa read chapters to me. I also listen to Pandora music. Timers are useful and alarms. TTS readings of ebooks are useful and a few other things. There will be breaches and hacks. The important thing is that Amazon tech and devs find and fix them quickly. My only real concern is that Amazon gets as greedy as Google for our info that they step over the line and collect too much and listen too often and abuse our love for their devices. In that situation I would drop my Alexas as fast as a hot rock no matter how convenient they are. I don't think Amazon is that stupid. But over time Google has actually become evil and I wouldn't have thought it of them either. So I stay very cautiously optimistic as Amazon actually wants to sell us items and hopefully can't afford to scare off their users.
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