Amazon just revealed its first home robot – here’s what it’s like to use it

Is this referring to Alexa, or some other product? Have there been any major notable reports about spying happening with Echos?

With regards to data collection for ads, personalized recommendations and such, are there any major concerns that don't also extend to ex:- visiting a website with a tracking cookie on?

(Don't get me wrong, I'm very wary of this product after Sidewalk [0] which I don't trust from a security perspective wherein as a bug could allow _third parties_ to snoop on me, but I'm just missing what people are talking about w.r.t. surveillance by Amazon itself)

[0] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/06/understanding-amazon-s...

It literally delivers a beer in their intro video. Of course, it can't open the fridge, but I think it's pretty hilarious that they actually put a cupholder on it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sj1t3msy8dc

Because they want us to get used to us thinking its so convenient to have Amazon listening and watching us at home.

Once you start to see that you are the product, you see the future of tech.

What you do is highly valuable to advertisers. If it was cost effective, they would have someone watching you around the clock and reporting all your activities back to headquarters.