Amazon hardware is crappy.
I had a couple of Amazon Firesticks and they became nothing but problems.
And I never even tried to use Alexa.
I bought an Apple streaming device and what difference, very snappy and no ads, and I can control the interface.
Siri is turned off.
Their firestick is more garbage..I got mine replaced because it just froze up and I couldn’t undo it..my apple TV works great..I use it for the spectrum app