Something new and disturbing to add to my wariness of Amazon and its devices. For the first time ever, I looked at the "sharing" section on our Amazon account and then discovered in the "Family" section a login for a child named Herbert and another unnamed child.
We have no children!
BUT (here is where it gets scary) we have often talked about an imaginary son we call Herbert, just for a laugh. It seems the Amazon devices in our home have picked that up as real and added him to our family page.
Trillian ✅✝️ 🇬🇧👍
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2025-06-03 18:40:11 UTC
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