"You know that boundary that we agreed upon a while back? We're gonna violate that boundary now. This is not an opportunity to negotiate a new agreement, we're gonna do whatever we want to you because we're big and you're little." Stuff like this is why I've cut amazon out of my life entirely. No more new devices, no more new purchases, cancelled prime, all of it gone.
I honestly wonder how legal that is. If you bought something under the pretense that you could disable cloud stuff and then it silently starts uploading to the cloud, that's a violation of your agreement. If they start dropping all requests until you assent to their shrinkwrap agreement, that still feels like a violation of the promises they made when you bought it, but unfortunately has precedent. See also: all the…
Re: The Alexa feature "do not send voice recordings" you enabled no longer available
#681The agreement contains provisions by which they can unilaterally change the agreement. They almost all do now, it's pretty standard boilerplate. Not long ago there was a TV, I wanna say it was LG but doublecheck that before you quote me, that shipped an OTA update with a change to the licensing agreement. Either you agreed, or they intentionally disabled all functionality. As we steadily move toward that sort of freedom that means less things you can actually do and more ways you can get screwed over this kind of stuff becomes increasingly common.