I'm not sure how much they dig, but Alexa recently changed to do everything via cloud, including all recordings and voice processing. It's definitely at least always listening and phoning home.
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That sounds scary
It’s even worse once you realize LG remotes might’ve already been doing this on the down low. I don’t trust anything that has any form of connection/communications hardwired and unable to be turned off anymore.
Yep assuming the same. Good speaker and nice with the clock. Wonder if i can get some use of it as offline dumb speaker ?
Unless your whole router tunnels over a VPN, it probably geolocated you to country B.
But geolocation databases are inaccurate, and sometimes advertisers target a large area. It might just be a guess.
Router is not on vpn, I am however in Country A , so the geolocation should be country A
If the IP address belongs to a network in country B, that's why it would place you there.
Why would it belong to country B? IP is country A
Using your WiFi SSID paired with Alexa Sidewalk gives it all the info it needs to know precisely where it is, even if you lie to it or use VPN.
It's already associated to your profile.
Spooky fingers
Are you in Lithuania by any chance? 🤣
Nope different place :)
;D