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Alexa – Where are the Sellers Moving?

A simple tip for owners of Amazon’s Alexa (or Google Home) – consider pressing the “silence” button before you leave in the morning, before your house is shown.

And … require a code when ordering things from Amazon. You don’t want someone coming in and ordering 20 bags of dog food, right?

 


This is a great article (read the whole thing)

  1. The default Alexa settings allow anyone within hearing distance of your Echo device to order goods and services on your Amazon account;

  2. This includes children and voices on the radio or television;

  3. Alexa will offer to sell you things even if you are not looking to buy them, for example if you or your child were to say “Alexa, what’s a popular drone?” it will offer to sell you one;

  4. You cannot tell Alexa to cancel a purchase. You have to use the app or Amazon website;

  5. You can protect Alexa’s voice purchasing feature by adding a confirmation code;

  6. You can turn off the voice purchasing feature completely;

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