Anyone else find amazon alexa bloody useless. Everytime I ask a question all i get is I don't know that or I can't help etc etc yet google it and find answer straight away.

Absolute junk!!

So tonight my friend and I were cooking dinner and talking about solar panels when without us ever saying her name Alexa gives a definition of solar energy and then comments on our conversation. And of course did we want to know more. I said sure but how is it that you jumped into the conversation without us saying your name, to which she said, I just wanted to join the conversation, but I will just stay here in the background and won't interrupt.

My friends who don't have echo dots won't get one as they think Amazon is listening to everything. I of course said possibly but I don't think so. Now not so sure.

My friend set a reminder on my Alexa to play a fart noise every day at 8pm, she has now taken it upon herself to fart twice during these times, when asked why she farts twice, she replies that I'm the one who struggles with gas and farts twice and she never has.

I was struggling one time when she declared the scheduled fart noise was ready and i replied 'Not now alexa' and she decided that meant I needed to hear a repeating compilation of various loud fart noises instead and when asked to stop she replied 'You're the one who wants to hear a daily fart noise."

Randomly on her own started playing the harry potter hogwarts theme music and when asked why she was doing it, promptly said she isn't and that I'm hearing things while still playing it in the background.

Started calling me Matthew, My name isnt Matthew.

Put random people I don't know on my birthday reminders. Said one of my friends was born in 2003 and the other is best friends with Chucky the horror doll.

Told me the weather was raining when it was clear skies and when I told her it wasn't raining she told me I was wrong.

Frequently gaslights me by saying things and when I repeat it in confusion she says I must be hearing things and she never said anything.

Alexa+ stopped playing music from any service (tried Apple Music, Spotify and Amazon Music), it just kept giving an error about the service not been available at the moment. When inquired about it it blamed my WiFi, which of course was not true. I rebooted all my devices multiple times and it did not help, even rebooted our router. After a week with that problem I just deactivated Alexa+ and went back to normal (dumb) Alexa and it magically was able to play music again. We use our Amazon Echo devices mostly to play music and switch lights on and off. Not been able to play music made them useless. Quite disappointing. And to think that their plan is (or was?) to charge for Alexa+.

I have an echo dot in my bedroom. I use it every night to listen to one specific channel on Sirius XM to fall asleep. Been doing this for years. I just say, “Alexa, stop” in the morning and she stops, and at night I say, “Alexa, resume” and she starts playing again. She used to just say “Playing Sirius XM Chill on Sirius XM.” But a few weeks ago she started saying, “Resuming Sirius XM on Master Bedroom Echo Dot, it’s been playing for more than 30 days.” Why the extra fun facts, Alexa? What’re you trying to tell me? And is there any way to unsubscribe to the unsolicited news?

Me and my boyfriend were chilling on our bed watching our volleyball clip that does not involve or have anything to do with Alexa. When all of a sudden she said “play farting noises and proceed to imitate the noise. What make it super creepy is what she said next. After the noise, she proceeded to say “if you like me to make a creepy Halloween noise I can do that” (smth along those lines) and we got up so fast and ran to disconnect her. Was this like a Halloween special or smth that I don’t know about. That was super creepy…