I don’t have any problems with my Echo or Dot. Why would I want to install Sidewalk?

I'm not generally overly concerned with Echo in my house, but this goes a step further than I am comfortable with. I plan to opt-out until more is known.

This article explains Sidewalk better than anything I received from Amazon. [www.cnet.com]

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Somewhere Orwell is laughing his ass off.

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Thanks for sharing this, I had not heard anything about it. Looking forward to opt-out.

Good god no. Nexdoor is annoying enough. So much hostility and racism.

This is kind of what comcast has been doing for years. if you have their modem/router it broadcasts a signal that any other Comcast user can log into. the brief time i had one of their units i opted out. yet, if my internet goes down i have been known to log into the Xfinity signal from the church in back of me. it's not very fast but it helps in a pinch. plus this service is part of the backbone for Xfinity Mobile which I also have. As you travel about it connects to Xfinity signals that are in my area like a vast spider web. If it can't find one it falls back to Verizon cell towers. It's all seamless and instantaneous.

So I had mixed feelings when I read the email from Amazon about Sidewalk. It's very Orwellian but the technique has made part of my life easier and less expensive.

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Thanks al