Eufy does not respect your privacy. Do not give them any of your money.
I wonder if this is how they subsidize EUFY and soundcore. Soundcore is another sub brand of anchor and they make quality Bluetooth speakers for a cheap price, but yeah… UFY pulling crap like that is not great. Makes me not want to buy anything other than soundcore speakers from anchor. Ridiculous! They also pulled HomeKit integration from their latest devices. Also ridiculous.
I’ve also been getting these on my iPhone. I might open a ticket with their support and ask how to stop this nonsense.
never heard of them but glad to know not to bother. please make sure you review their app, it is really helpful to see this type of thing in app reviews.
But you’ve probably heard of Anker, who owns Eufy. Eufy is just their smarthome brand. This is 100% Anker making these decisions.
Same, but a lot of people bought Eufy because they trusted Anker. Anler had a reputation of making reasonably priced cables & chargers that were still quality. It’s like people buying Hue products because it had the Philips name for instance. Anker decided to cash in all of their brand loyalty for some short term sales of its Eufy lineup.
Amazon sent me a notification on my echo yesterday trying to sell me batteries because my hue dimmer switch was low.
I’ve ditched Amazon almost entirely. I still have a clock of theirs in the kitchen because I like the traditional analog face but it has a light up face for count down times when cooking. And I have their thermostats, which I don’t ever adjust much - basically it’s just nice to know vacation mode is on, and they were stupid cheap.
Otherwise, I’ve removed all the echo dots and Amazon plugs. Alexa literally interrupted a work meeting, without being prompted or triggered by a wake word, to tell me I should check the app for upcoming deals. Switched over to HomePod minis that week.
Have the clock too. I have echos is every room except in the smallest bedroom that I use as an office when I work from home. I use them quite a lot. I also have echo inputs connected to hifi amps in kitchen and living room paired with their respective echo for spotify and further grouped for full downstairs synced audio. The default should be off for that type of notification, as it is I have to go to devices and scroll through 14 pages of devices on my phone to turn it off individually.
It is off, and it was. Amazon was trialing some new thing. They also like to randomly turn that BS back on. Alexa is just so untrustworthy. It’s constantly trying to hawk me crap I don’t need. “Alexa turn off the kitchen.” “Ok. By the way. You can order more coffee filters by saying ‘Alexa order more coffee fillers’. Would you like me to order more coffee filters?”