Amazon's Echo will no longer provide an option to process Alexa voice requests locally. This is not surprising and neither is the thought they Amazon ever truly honored those requests to begin with.
Our recommendations is to not use Big Tech powered smart devices and instead use the open source and privacy by default alternative Home Assistant.
Home Assistant
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References
Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28
Amazon is killing a privacy feature to bolster Alexa+, the new subscription assistant.
Scharon Harding
Archive Link: https://archive.is/C1fTn
Amazon is shutting down its option to process commands locally
It’s all about the cloud
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Archive Link: https://archive.is/QCsYi
