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You get to choose, and they are actually offering to pay you... I thought this is what we wanted people...
They complain when they pay you money for your data.
They just want to complain. Thus their complaints are simply worthless.
Next year, "I did a total body scan at the Amazon Outlet and Care Center and got a free year of Amazon Prime."
Next next year, "The Amazon chip implant was totally painless and I got an account credit of 100 Bezos Bucks."
Next decade, "Alabama is the only state I'm not allowed to marry Alexa."
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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).
Even that wouldn't work if anyone is using custom domain names (which the vast majority of published endpoints will be). The best you can do is black list Amazon owned IPs. But you should expect half the web (figure made up) to break and potentially in unexpected ways). Not to mention plenty of other internet based infra like IoT devices, smart TVs, etc
I think it is a step forward to pay users for data. Of course, amazon still collects everything it can anyway, for free. But in principle, this is good. But two things. 1. What is the correct price? Amazon is doing this to better discriminate customers on offerings, price and quality. It's essentially the sophisticated version of what econ 101 calls "siphoning off the consumer surplus by price discrimination". At thi…
You get to choose, and they are actually offering to pay you... I thought this is what we wanted people...
They complain when they take your data in exchange for a service. They complain when they pay you money for your data. They just want to complain. Thus their complaints are simply worthless.
Shoptimate extension has been doing that for 9 years without selling your data.
This go around, "Hey, it's not like it's a total body scan." Next year, "I did a total body scan at the Amazon Outlet and Care Center and got a free year of Amazon Prime." Next next year, "The Amazon chip implant was totally painless and I got an account credit of 100 Bezos Bucks." Next decade, "Alabama is the only state I'm not allowed to marry Alexa."
What are the parameters around this? Can you install the assistant make your purchase and then uninstall it, or does it have to stay installed for some specified period of time?
I think it is a step forward to pay users for data. Of course, amazon still collects everything it can anyway, for free. But in principle, this is good. But two things. 1. What is the correct price? Amazon is doing this to better discriminate customers on offerings, price and quality. It's essentially the sophisticated version of what econ 101 calls "siphoning off the consumer surplus by price discrimination". At thi…
I don't find it a step forward at all. It's a move toward pricing out the privacy-conscious. Right now, auto insurers in Canada will give you a premium reduction if you let them spy on you as you drive. But what happens when that becomes the norm? People end up paying a premium to not be spied on. Eventually privacy becomes unaffordable.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't find it a step forward at all. It's a move toward pricing out the privacy-conscious. Right now, auto insurers in Canada will give you a premium reduction if you let them spy on you as you drive. But what happens when that becomes the norm? People end up paying a premium to not be spied on. Eventually privacy becomes unaffordable.
If you value privacy, pay for it.