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There's a way to download all of your Alexa requests. I recommend it to everyone. It was interesting and horrifying to get literally all of them, from day 1. I noticed how tired I sound in the mornings or evenings. I started understanding patterns of my thoughts and needs. The Alexa went to the bin quickly after that session of exploration and insight.


Link for those that are interested: https://www.amazon.com/hz/privacy-central/data-requests/prev...

Be advised it's not instant.


Mine is a whole list of "weather" and "set timer for 4 minutes".


Heh, you can do the same with your Google searches. Equally horrifying, I suppose.


Where does Google offer this?


https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity?pli=1


> The Alexa went to the bin quickly after that session of exploration and insight.

Why? It sounds like it was really interesting and valuable to observe those patterns.


Presumably because it is a privacy hazard to have someone else storing that kind of data about you


Exactly.


Precisely because it _was_ so interesting and valuable to observe those patterns - for the corporation observing them.


Exactly.




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