You probably should just download the app real quick and disable it just in case.
Do note that Comcast (if you use their provided router) has been doing this for years already and isn't exclusive to just Amazon devices, it's just out there for everyone.
This should be illegal.
If you use a Comcast owned wifi router and your in an urban area then you should know that it creates by default a second public wifi network that anyone with a Comcast login can use when they are in range of your wifi network.
you can disable it but it is turned on by default, and most people don't disable it. And yes it uses your internet bandwidth.
It's not just Amazon but this is still horrible.
If you use a Comcast owned wifi router and your in an urban area then you should know that it creates by default a second public wifi network that anyone with a Comcast login can use when they are in range of your wifi network.
you can disable it but it is turned on by default, and most people don't disable it. And yes it uses your internet bandwidth.
It's not just Amazon but this is still horrible.
Ya the xfinity wifi option is always bothered me with how it works. Luckily it can be disabled as well. And at least it's just the modem and not a jillion other things.Do note that Comcast (if you use their provided router) has been doing this for years already and isn't exclusive to just Amazon devices, it's just out there for everyone.
This should be illegal.
You go to xfininity.com login with your Comcast account, then go to your devices then manage xfinity wifi and disable it.
Where in the router is this and what's it called?If you use a Comcast owned wifi router and your in an urban area then you should know that it creates by default a second public wifi network that anyone with a Comcast login can use when they are in range of your wifi network.
you can disable it but it is turned on by default, and most people don't disable it. And yes it uses your internet bandwidth.
It's not just Amazon but this is still horrible.
It's a thing with every French ISP that i know of. It unexpectedly was quite useful one time when I was younger had no internet access on my phone and had to get stuff on the net in a pinch. The bandwidth is not enough to do much of anything except loading your mails, or other very basic stuff.
If you use a Comcast owned wifi router and your in an urban area then you should know that it creates by default a second public wifi network that anyone with a Comcast login can use when they are in range of your wifi network.
you can disable it but it is turned on by default, and most people don't disable it. And yes it uses your internet bandwidth.
It's not just Amazon but this is still horrible.
Telcoms have been doing this for years. If you're renting a cable box with wifi in it, it's probably blasting out an open wifi channel.
It's a thing with every French ISP that i know of. It unexpectedly was quite useful one time when I was younger had no internet access on my phone and had to get stuff on the net in a pinch. The bandwidth is not enough to do much of anything except loading your mails, or other very basic stuff.
Damn, another pebble on the mountain of ways that Comcast sucks hard. That's messed up.If you use a Comcast owned wifi router and your in an urban area then you should know that it creates by default a second public wifi network that anyone with a Comcast login can use when they are in range of your wifi network.
you can disable it but it is turned on by default, and most people don't disable it. And yes it uses your internet bandwidth.
It's not just Amazon but this is still horrible.
OK I'm stealing "IOT panopticon" it's a really elegant way to describe the distopian ubiquity of corporate surveillance.What ISPs do is really shitty, but it is NOT the same as this.
To be reductive, ISPs are stealing some of your bandwidth for use by other customers as a dumb pipe. It's just the transport layer.
Amazon is stealing your bandwidth and network access to create an IOT panopticon that they have exclusive domain over. Its use is at the application layer.
Comcast puts out an Xfinity wifi SSID that's completely separate from your network.Do note that Comcast (if you use their provided router) has been doing this for years already and isn't exclusive to just Amazon devices, it's just out there for everyone.
This should be illegal.
Please do!OK I'm stealing "IOT panopticon" it's a really elegant way to describe the distopian ubiquity of corporate surveillance.
Can't see it on my Echo Dot. Only device I have in that list.
Based in UK.
Is it even possible to commit a felony with an Echo?
Your order will be delivered Monday, November 30th by 8PM. Thank you for shopping at Amazon."Alexa, order me 3 white slaves and one thermonuclear device of yield 5 megatons"
One thing I noticed, depending on how old your phone/app are, is that the option might not appear in the app if the device is old. My dad's phone is old as shit, and his Alexa app didn't mention Sidewalk under settings. I uninstalled the app on his phone and installed it on my mom's phone instead, which is much newer, and the Sidewalk option was there.I went through my Alexa app and only see guest access, nothing about sidewalk. I disabled the guest access, but I don't see "sidewalk" going to were the op says in settings, and I'm in the US.
If they need more bandwidth they'll just bury it in the new mandatory ToS. This statement on the website is pretty meaningless.Checking their website, seems like data usage is capped at 500MB per month and speed is shaped at 80kbps. Which is not bad.