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They are "listening", they're just not communicating with their home servers. The wake-up words are processed locally. I mean they have to be.
"Mute" is really a terrible way to describe this switch and breeds distrust. It should just be a WiFi switch or something.
Bullshit. I'm never going to buy one of those and if someone gifts one to me I'm bashing it with a hammer until it's in pieces.
I mean that's fair but it doesn't make what I said "bullshit"