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Found a way to keep my smart speaker from listening all night, and it actually works
I got tired of my smart speaker picking up bits of conversation at 2am and showing up in my ad feed the next day, so I unplugged the thing for a week and the creepy ads mostly went away. Then I tried a dumb fix: I put it on a cheap lamp timer from the hardware store so it only gets power from 7am to 9pm. Two months in and I have not seen a single ad for something I only said out loud. The timer cost me $12 at the Ace on Fremont and it took 30 seconds to set up. Has anyone else found a low tech way to put limits on their devices, or am I just fooling myself here?
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