Are Alexa and other devices eavesdropping?

@shavixmir said
Isn’t this forum social media?

More like asocial medium. 😲

@wildgrass said
I could argue you're giving it to them for free.

If you pay for web content, like local news subscriptions, you see a lot fewer ads. If you want the content for free, this is the implicit tradeoff. Someone needs to pay the bills.

It is not giving if there is no consent. Facebook steals your information without asking. A disclaimer is in order.

@shavixmir said
Isn’t this forum social media?

I thought about that, and the way even a telephone or e-mail could be considered social media, or a letter sent by post. But a social media outlet I take to be an internet networking site in which users usually use their real identities and link to others whom they know, who in turn link to still others, and so on in a web of chatter geared for rapid viral escalation.

Anyway everyone knows this is really just a chess site.