Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Internet

I'be opted out by not having any of those type devices in my house.

StirCrazy wrote:
must be a US only thing, I looked on my amazon devides and I dont have the setting or app to disable or enable.

Steve

Yes - "only available in the US".

Mike

must be a US only thing, I looked on my amazon devides and I dont have the setting or app to disable or enable.

Steve

thomasmnile wrote:
I'm still trying to figure out how they would access bandwidth on another router but that's way beyond my pay grade. Thanks for the info OP.

Believe they would access it through your Amazon device, if you don't opt out. If your neighbors loses it's network connection with his network, the device would link to your device if in range, and then would have access to the inner-web through your device.

It should be criminal for Amazon to make the default be opt-in, and they didn't tell anyone.

I've opted out.

Mike

fj12ryder wrote:
Hmm, I don't use Alexa, have the microphone physically non-working. Don't have Ring, Echo, security cams, or outdoor connected lights. Nor Tile, or any of the other stuff. Sometimes being a semi-Luddite is a good thing. :)

The mom's & dad's who chose "Alexa" as their daughter's name a few years ago......are conspiring to send Bezos into the far outer reaches of space when he takes his flight!!

:R

I have no interest or need for any of those devices that hackers can use against you. I am not that lazy to want any of those JB devices at 74 years young.

I'm sure your neighbors will appreciate you sharing your network. :)

Better buy those tinfoil hats right away, I hear there is a shortage of them and the price has shot through the roof.

No they won't. I just disabled Sidewalk on my account. Geez, Bezos already knows enough about us. :B

I'm still trying to figure out how they would access bandwidth on another router but that's way beyond my pay grade. Thanks for the info OP.

K Charles wrote:
My Wi-Fi doesn't make it to the end of our lawn, how is it going to get to the neighbors?

Don't be too sure. I can see my neighbor's wifi from my house sometimes. It is locked of course and requires a password so I can't log into it. But it is there for someone so inclined to hack into.

I also can walk down the street with my iphone searching for wifi networks and see many neighbor's wifi sitting out there. Some have wifi names that I can associate with that person so easy to identify whose it is.