• JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
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    6 months ago

    Literally can’t stay ahead of it.

    My kid re-activated prime on me a long time ago, before I had even started thinking about parental controls, by selecting a movie on the Kindle Fire playing with the remote.

    Thought I’d learned my lesson, but no. Couple years later he reactivated Audible by asking Alexa to read him a story. He was probably like 4 or 5 by then. Not only reactivated Audible, but wasted a credit on The Three Little Pigs

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      6 months ago

      I’m so confused how these devices ended up subscribing you to these services without further validation.

      I use mainly Google products and I don’t think I can even subscribe to audible if I tried, by voice alone.

      Were these Amazon devices or something? I’m really confused.

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        6 months ago

        Yes, Kindle Fire TV and Ecobee thermostat (with Alexa).

        And for the record, I hate Alexa, or at least the version in my thermostat. Alexa makes Google nests look like a Nobel laureate.

        These were also reactivations, so they already had all our account info, and entirely inside Amazons walled garden.