The value of Alexa is that it can listen to your subversive dinner table conversations and record them verbatim for use in future prosecutions by the DoJ. Amazon surely gets a nice subsidy in the black budget for keeping these wiretaps operational.
When I got a new phone, google based, it listened to everything by default. I kept it next to my speakers. While listening to the Dan Bongino show the phone had automatically opened dozens of websites with “fact checks.” These damned phones spy whether you want it or not.