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b'On the scale between unbridled enthusiasm for smart speakers and technophobic paranoia, I fall in the ambivalent middle area. I\\u2019d read about the potential for these devices to be hacked or gamed by advertisers or to simply make expensive mistakes, and I\\u2019d heard others gush of the ways it had radically transformed their homes for the better. But I had never pictured myself having one, and so I didn\\u2019t do any real research or form any real opinions.'