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Amazon is forcibly upgrading Prime members to Alexa Plus, and users are not happy (www.androidauthority.com)

submitted 10 months ago by throws_lemy@reddthat.com to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Alexa users who are Amazon Prime members are reportedly being automatically upgraded to Alexa Plus.
Users who have been upgraded can revert to the old Alexa by saying, “Alexa, exit Alexa Plus.”
One user claims that they were “flooded with ads” after downgrading back to Alexa.

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[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 1 point 9 months ago (5 children)

At a shareholders meeting/end of year report/etc... Does matter as long as it goes public.

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[–] null@piefed.nullspace.lol 0 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Okay, which is where they will either follow up, or just see combined metrics

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[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 1 point 9 months ago (3 children)

I just explained that the shareholders wouldn't do that, because that only risks the shareprice going down, which is against their interests.

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[–] null@piefed.nullspace.lol 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Wouldn't do what? Read the report they got?

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[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

Wouldn't follow up or ask hard questions about combined metrics. It's in their best interest to be enthusiastic about the numbers and push them to less critical media outlets everywhere, so the share price goes up.

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[–] null@piefed.nullspace.lol 0 points 9 months ago

If you say so

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