- Alexa users who are Amazon Prime members are reportedly being automatically upgraded to Alexa Plus.
- Users who have been upgraded can revert to the old Alexa by saying, “Alexa, exit Alexa Plus.”
- One user claims that they were “flooded with ads” after downgrading back to Alexa.


I have the original Echo, and it still works. For some reason I had it running and it had an alert recently. So I asked what it was, and Alexa promoted being able to upgrade and told me how it’s so much better and stuff. And told me I just had to give it the go to upgrade.
So I did. And then AND THEN it told me my device is too old.
Fucking POS. I unplugged it again. I use it as a stand for my HomePod Mini.
I have a HomePod household and I’m getting ready to kill that off honestly. Apple using Gemini for Siri later this year has me finally pull them out and doing locally hosted assistant stuff.