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Amazon Fire Tablet, why I hate it.

x Hedge — Sun, 15 Jul 2018 02:14:54 GMT

Amazon makes it clear, you may have paid for it, but it will always be their tablet.

Yesterday I made the foolish mistake of leaving my Amazon Fire Tablet connected to WiFi when I was called away. I found something called "Show Me" was loaded in my absence.

Just another unwanted, memory gobbling feature I have to Force Stop.

I've disabled Alexa 5 times. I do not want to be her friend. She turns herself on at will.

I had to Force Stop Alexa too, and she doesn't like it.

She's been sending me nonsense notifications to check apps that are likewise, not activated or in use. Today she was on again after I Forced Stop yesterday.

Amazon takes it upon themselves to select movies and tv shows for me, and loads them onto my tablet without permission.

Who makes and sells a tablet, then after you link up your email and such, it surreptitiously loads apps, games, books, newspapers, movies etc onto it without being asked to?!

Everytime I pick up the tablet something's different. It's like having someone else use it when you're not looking.

- AND, worst keyboard ever!!!!!!!

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Sweetbay magnolia — Sun, 15 Jul 2018 02:23:03 GMT

Good to know. I had to disable a few things Apple related between me and DH - iPhone to iMac to iPhone. The sharing malarkey is, well, malarkey. I think the only reason I could do what I did is that the iMac is 2011. It doesn't "think" like the new ones.

Big Brother is watching.

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proudlyfromNJ — Sun, 15 Jul 2018 02:38:02 GMT

@Sweetbay magnolia wrote:
Good to know. I had to disable a few things Apple related between me and DH - iPhone to iMac to iPhone. The sharing malarkey is, well, malarkey. I think the only reason I could do what I did is that the iMac is 2011. It doesn't "think" like the new ones.

Big Brother is watching.

@Sweetbay magnolia. So what are you getting between your phones. I haven't noticed anything but maybe I don't know what to look for. Don't have a Mac but each of us have an iPhone.

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Equuleus — Sun, 15 Jul 2018 02:39:33 GMT

When you purchase or join something (i.e FB) that is connected to something that's connected to something that's connected to something and so on and so forth, you've already lost control.

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Kachina624 — Sun, 15 Jul 2018 02:50:45 GMT

@x Hedge. You didn't mention the biggest irritant; when I bought mine several years ago, you had the pay EXTRA for one if you didn't want a constant barrage of advertising.

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January121 — Sun, 15 Jul 2018 03:52:50 GMT

It almost sounds like it’s haunted 👻

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GCR18 — Sun, 15 Jul 2018 04:17:05 GMT

I've exclusively been using a kindle for years. I don't have those issues. Alexa is turned off and doesn't turn on. I don't have newspapers or movies added.

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Sweetbay magnolia — Sun, 15 Jul 2018 11:21:43 GMT

@proudlyfromNJ, we started getting each other's voicemail and texts, and call records. Photos in the cloud are shared between devices. He's been getting my texts via computer when my phone is "home".

It all goes back to iTunes accounts.

I have nothing to hide, but some things I like to be separate. I can work a little more and continue to patch the issue, but I have other things I'd rather be doing. I've always said, I don't have to know how to replace the brakes in my car to drive it - why so necessary to understand the OS of the computer? Some of it's pretty esoteric to those of us who remember DOS (hated that, too, though. People running around with IBM punch cards on the college campus).

I was lucky to be able to get the 2011 iMac to High Sierra. I had lapsed on updates for that one and it was a near psychedelic experience to scrub the machine and plug in special codes to bring it up to "code".

Sent from my MacBook Air (which has basically been replaced by the MacBook and the Pro).

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Abrowneyegirl — Sun, 15 Jul 2018 11:52:15 GMT

@Kachina624 wrote:
@x Hedge. You didn't mention the biggest irritant; when I bought mine several years ago, you had the pay EXTRA for one if you didn't want a constant barrage of advertising.

This is still true.

You can turn off all this ******, I had my "IT guy" do it on my Mom's friend's tablet. She did not know there was an option when buying.

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apple1964 — Sun, 15 Jul 2018 12:21:56 GMT

Glad I got rid of my fire tablets, I still have my white alexa dot that gives me the weather and the traffic which I need in the mornings before I leave for work, I do not own any tablets at all now. I have a phone and a CB that I love.

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VaBelle35 — Sun, 15 Jul 2018 13:58:12 GMT

Alexa Accessories with Show Mode (which turns your tablet into an Echo Show if you turn it on) just downloaded for all HD8 and 10 2017 tablets.

I posted a thread on it.

I bought the 2017 tablet because so many of my apps no longer worked on my older tablet, so I decided to upgrade only to find that other apps now no longer work.

I have a love-hate relationship with mine.

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patbz — Sun, 15 Jul 2018 14:04:35 GMT

I have owned Fire tablets since generation two and don't have any issues. I currently own ten inch generation 7 and am looking forward to ordering charging dock that makes it function like the show. I am a Prime member and use all my tablet's capabilities (way more cost effective than Apple alternative).

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Quse — Sun, 15 Jul 2018 14:07:18 GMT

Data mining is huge $$$$ these days, so all the electronics "talk" to each other...and report back to their mother ships...lol

Amazon and Google are the worst. Anything linked up or connected to anything involving those companies is sending every piece of info back to the companies...and they'll send you their privacy policies to consent to long after they already collected the data. I've disconnected from gmail..was causing too many headaches. I will never own one of those creepy pod things. My friend says he can constantly hear his neighbors conversations bcz they have those pod things too. My 1st Kindle (I'm talking the one that you had to laboriously scroll through screens to locate things) was doing weird stuff day 1...turning itself on, etc..now it sits with a dead battery, unused.

FYI your roomba and "smart tv", "smart appliances" are all doing the same thing.

The companies assume you comply when you bought their product

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proudlyfromNJ — Sun, 15 Jul 2018 16:16:00 GMT

@Sweetbay magnolia. Oh ok. I don't have an iTunes account.

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x Hedge — Sun, 15 Jul 2018 18:52:24 GMT

re "data mining", That may be part of my problem with the Fire tablet.

I view my phones and tablet as 'tools'. They're there to work as I want them to, for my benefit, not someone else's.

I've never given any of my devices permission to track my location, and as soon as I activate a device or app, I carefully go thru the settings and "opt out" or shut down anything that serves as their tool rather than mine.

It's clear they don't like this, because many options that would reduce data mining aren't even offered to us in the settings anymore.

My newer phone, like the Fire tablet, had changed some of my settings on it's own.

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LiveLaughLove — Sun, 15 Jul 2018 22:32:35 GMT

Weird. I have had mine for years and have never had these problems - knock on wood.

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SilleeMee — Mon, 16 Jul 2018 11:53:24 GMT

I side-loaded Google Play onto my Fire tablet, voided the warranty and I didn't care. My Fire performs just like a regular Google tablet now....a much better one imo.

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wishmoon — Mon, 16 Jul 2018 11:59:19 GMT

If you don't like being "connected", get off the internet. Once you've chosen to be on the inet, you've lost all semblence of any privacy you think you may have once had. Even if you don't choose to use a device of any sort, your house is recorded under Google maps and how many other things we can't even imagine.

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VaBelle35 — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 11:23:50 GMT

I just purchased an Amazon Basics bluetooth speaker to help with sound on my tablet. I have the HD8 2017 version and on some apps like Tivo, the sound is not that great when watching movies or tvs. Netflix is better but the ABC, NBC app are really bad. Even my Flash Briefing is hit or miss. BBC News is really low volume, but ESPN will shake the walls.

I tried it yesterday and the sound quality is nice and I can hear better when watching a show.

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Nataliesgramma — Sat, 21 Jul 2018 11:28:36 GMT

I bought hubby a Fire tablet last Christmas and he hates it for the same reason as OP...