Amazon offers $10 to Prime Day shoppers who hand over their data
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Re: Amazon offers $10 to Prime Day shoppers who hand over their data
#2This is honestly frustrating to see whenever massive corporations are responsible for creating a deal in which users will be given away data in order to receive a small compensation. Data, especially personal data should not be a means in which anyone can make any sort of financial compensation from. personal data is stolen every day and used against individuals - and by creating a means in which more people will give you their data, the larger target you have from individuals who are seeking to steal others data.
Re: Amazon offers $10 to Prime Day shoppers who hand over their data
#3At least they're transparent about it and you're getting paid for your data.
Re: Amazon offers $10 to Prime Day shoppers who hand over their data
#4Just a casual reminder that a portion of Amazon workers are on a strike during the Prime Days.
Support them by not visiting any Amazon property for the next two days. No Amazon purchases, no Audible, no Goodreads, no Twitch. AWS is kinda unavoidable, but the rest is not. We can do without them for two days, and show our support for the workers that are protesting inhumane conditions.
Re: Amazon offers $10 to Prime Day shoppers who hand over their data
#5Just a casual reminder that a portion of Amazon workers are on a strike during the Prime Days. Support them by not visiting any Amazon property for the next two days. No Amazon purchases, no Audible, no Goodreads, no Twitch. AWS is kinda unavoidable, but the rest is not. We can do without them for two days, and show our support for the workers that are protesting inhumane conditions.
> AWS is kinda unavoidable, but the rest is not.
Even AWS is avoidable. The cloud hosting market is competitive if you'd only look around.
Re: Amazon offers $10 to Prime Day shoppers who hand over their data
#6Just a casual reminder that a portion of Amazon workers are on a strike during the Prime Days. Support them by not visiting any Amazon property for the next two days. No Amazon purchases, no Audible, no Goodreads, no Twitch. AWS is kinda unavoidable, but the rest is not. We can do without them for two days, and show our support for the workers that are protesting inhumane conditions.
> AWS is kinda unavoidable, but the rest is not. Even AWS is avoidable. The cloud hosting market is competitive if you'd only look around.
I thing op meant that you as a internet traveler can't really avoid websites calling aws (unless you block them with something like pi-hole or no script).
Re: Amazon offers $10 to Prime Day shoppers who hand over their data
#7This is honestly frustrating to see whenever massive corporations are responsible for creating a deal in which users will be given away data in order to receive a small compensation. Data, especially personal data should not be a means in which anyone can make any sort of financial compensation from. personal data is stolen every day and used against individuals - and by creating a means in which more people will giv…
On the other hand you could sell them pretty useless data for $10. You only need to make one purchase to get the money.
In some ways this seems like an error on Amazons part. They are telling people this data is worth $10, when most people think its worthless. How long before enough people cotton on and these companies start having to pay rates that reflect the actual value of the data.
Re: Amazon offers $10 to Prime Day shoppers who hand over their data
#8At least they're transparent about it and you're getting paid for your data.
Thats true but I still think it is ridiculous how loosely data is given
Re: Amazon offers $10 to Prime Day shoppers who hand over their data
#9Just a casual reminder that a portion of Amazon workers are on a strike during the Prime Days. Support them by not visiting any Amazon property for the next two days. No Amazon purchases, no Audible, no Goodreads, no Twitch. AWS is kinda unavoidable, but the rest is not. We can do without them for two days, and show our support for the workers that are protesting inhumane conditions.
> AWS is kinda unavoidable, but the rest is not. Even AWS is avoidable. The cloud hosting market is competitive if you'd only look around.
I mean that's all well and good but I can't switch over my company's infrastructure to GCE for the next two days.
Re: Amazon offers $10 to Prime Day shoppers who hand over their data
#10Just a casual reminder that a portion of Amazon workers are on a strike during the Prime Days. Support them by not visiting any Amazon property for the next two days. No Amazon purchases, no Audible, no Goodreads, no Twitch. AWS is kinda unavoidable, but the rest is not. We can do without them for two days, and show our support for the workers that are protesting inhumane conditions.
> AWS is kinda unavoidable, but the rest is not. Even AWS is avoidable. The cloud hosting market is competitive if you'd only look around.
Sure but good luck not visiting anyone else's website who uses it (and then pays Amazon for serving that to you).
Prime-day wise I saw other sites suggesting that you shouldn't avoid shopping there - a warehouse strike can't make its point of orders piling up and not shipping on time if there aren't orders to pile up.