this post was submitted on 13 Jan 2026
393 points (98.5% liked)

Technology

78785 readers
2305 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
technopagan@lemmy.world
L4s@lemmy.world
L3s@hackingne.ws
393
Amazon is forcibly upgrading Prime members to Alexa Plus, and users are not happy (www.androidauthority.com)
submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by throws_lemy@reddthat.com to c/technology@lemmy.world
100 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
  • 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.
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] null@piefed.nullspace.lol 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] null@piefed.nullspace.lol 1 points 8 hours ago

If you say so