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Yeah right. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jul/26/apple-con...
Your link does not contradict his.
The main difference is that apple didn't allow its users to have such a setting in the first place, so amazon used to be better. Until now, when they're equally bad in this respect.
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Don't these usually come with ToS or something that has you agreeing that they can change the service any time?
When you buy a car there is a lot of required paperwork that they don't really give you time to read, so maybe.
Am I supposed to have sympathy for people who bought a home snooping device now realizing they're going to be snooped on?
We can still say "I told you so" and have sympathy. But we shouldn't throw the sympathy away in contempt. Another reason is that over our life at least once we will be the suckers, and will look on those who said "i told you so" and see contempt in their eyes. Is that what we want?
Are these devices really worth the hassle?
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It's certainly a violation of the rental terms.
It's on page 52.
The article you're referring to on page 52 has provisions regarding confusion and/or impersonation, following the previously mentioned positive affirmation.
You need the full context of the T&C's, don't cherry pick.
I switched to Home Assistant a couple months ago (because I didn't like the idea of my voice being sent to amazon constantly) and haven't looked back! Soo much more you can do (including immediately using an LLM, if you like, whether in the cloud or local), and so much more control.
https://www.home-assistant.io/voice-pe/
The process is still complicated enough to be "enthusiast" (aka nerd) territory but it is getting better with every release. It will still be here in 10 years, nobody can take it away from us.