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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
"Alexa, disable severe weather alerts," is the only way I've found to eliminate this particular yellow ring of annoyance.
Never mind that I've clearly told her "no" every time she's offered to set up severe weather alerts.
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LOL! I tell her "NO!" to every offer for unsolicited information. And yet she always manages to come up with some annoyance a few times a week. I also really hate all those annoying interruptions of the tranquil photo slideshow on the Show 5 and Show 8, but Amazon always manages to slip in another annoying interruption from time to time. We really need a "bleep off" switch for Echos and Shows.
I finally turned off the microphones on all my Echos and Shows since she screws up audible home automation commands fairly often anyway. Without the mic she is less prone to start babbling on and on about something. It is much easier, and less annoying, to just use the Alexa app on my phone or tablet, although that is poorly designed and programmed too.
On a related note, as bad as Alexa is, at least she isn't a total moron like Siri! Siri's blonde roots show up a lot. She might make a good nursing home caretaker, because they don't really do anything constructive ever, but she is way too useless for anything else, and too bitchy when you tell her that.
