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Originally Posted by JBaby
See I don’t see those features as being “at no cost”.
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I don't see them as being free either, which is why I put "at no cost" in quotes. Granted, for a different reason than you consider them not free. But if they are useful features to you, of course, use them.
I used to be heavily against "a listening device in my home". But after years of that stance guess what? I now have Alexa devices in my home. I weighed the privacy concerns against benefits that I perceive and I chose the latter as most important in my particular situation. You are doing the exact same thing. I have no qualms regarding that. I know that there are reasons that Amazon sold me these Alexa devices super cheap and are not charging me a monthly fee to use them. And those reasons are for their benefit, not mine. The same goes for hooking up an eReader to Amazon's network. There's nothing wrong with making a decision that is different than the decision that someone else would have made. We should all try to be aware of the components that are in play as best we can however.