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Amazon says bug caused select Echo Show devices to use tons of data — widgets caching large images caused gigabytes of internet usage
This bug used up a lot of bandwidth.
“…there was a bug impacting widgets caching large images on select Echo Show devices,” Amazon spokesperson Lauren Raemhild said in an email. While plenty of commenters suggested to Plummer that his Echo device was spying on him, causing the excessive data usage, he disagreed and postulated a couple of other reasons, which Amazon has now confirmed. Amazon’s statement confirms that the massive amount of data used by Plummer’s Echo Show devices was a bug caused by an app downloading unnecessarily large photos.
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