You’re obscenely naive to think that.
All data is valuable. Big data is insanely valuable.
Facebook, Amazon etc....
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All data is valuable. Big data is insanely valuable.
Can you explain how that data might be used?
This is useless in isolation, but they don’t have it in isolation. They have this and a few hundred thousand other seemingly benign data points and a ridiculous amount of computing power to data mine it.
Off the top of my head with little thought - they could corroborate reading habits like time of day, speed, consistency etc with data about spending habits. They could then figure out the best time to target certain adverts at certain reading profiles. Although “reading profiles” will be far far more complex with far more dimensions of data than just reading and spending.
Seriously?
They'll just hire more and smarter data scientists to make sure that point never gets reached and everything remains useful to generate more money.
Do you really not know?
What books do you like
How often do you read
What time do you usually read
How long do you spend reading
What chapters did you spend more time on
How many times did you go back to a certain topic
How long do you spend reading those topics
Is there anything you skim over
And so on and so on. It's building up a picture of what people like and don't like.
Firstly, all your electronic data has a value. And that value is by the sites packaging up and selling on parts or all of your data.
Secondly, sites now employ hoards of data analysts who can then further transfer that data into meaningful information and sell that on.
And this adding of value to your data carries on and on.
And you have absolutely no say in the matter.
We live in a world where information is king.
All big tech companies ingest every user action as an event.
Nah... They will develop ai to make algorithms to do that... Far more cost effective in the long run than data scientists
Get a few econometrics till the ai can outperform then as well
Add a few more itterations into the model and we have skynet and the knowledge that not only will the revolution be televised it will be monetised on Amazon prime.
Also done we live in a world where the carbon footprint for data server farms is approaching that of airline travel and increasing exponentially ... Perhaps that will kill us before skynet...or carbon taxes will make people much more careful about data storage?
Quite so. But hopefully technology will innovative to reduce the need for energy consumption. Is that not why some such facilities are being located in Iceland.
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Absolutely horrible news.
As someone who works in big data, storage is the single most expensive thing in the business, even for companies as big and wealthy as Amazon. Unless they are keeping a running log that refreshes itself after certain days/entries, there's simply no way they can log every user action and store it for eternity.
Firebase
S3 storage is pretty cheap and within that you can use Glacier for any data where availability is not a prime concern.
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It is not that big a deal.
"This fund has an initial donation of $25 million from Amazon. The company will continue to make additional contributions to the fund as it’s needed. While we aren’t expecting anyone to do so, you can make a voluntary donation to the fund if you desire to do so."
"This fund has an initial donation of $25 million from Amazon. The company will continue to make additional contributions to the fund as it’s needed. While we aren’t expecting anyone to do so, you can make a voluntary donation to the fund if you desire to do so."
You can block the data being sent using apps such as Blokada which create a local VPN and stop the requests from being sent. This does not require you to root your phone.
The app can be downloaded on the F-Droid store, an app store for android which has only free and open source applications:
https://f-droid.org/
Alternatively you can download the apk directly from their website:
https://blokada.org/
All you have to do is download the app and active it. They have pre-built ad-block lists and they'll probably contain a ton to block amazon services. You can also add your own ones if you wish.
The Blokada app is extremely useful for watching content on demand services without having to watch adverts. It works for ITV, C4 and Five Demand but it won't work for youtube. If you want to watch youtube without adverts you should use the NewPipe app. Again this is also available on the F-Droid store. It works fairly well and also works for live content. You can also use it to play music in the background whilst having another app opened.
https://newpipe.schabi.org/
The app can be downloaded on the F-Droid store, an app store for android which has only free and open source applications:
https://f-droid.org/
Alternatively you can download the apk directly from their website:
https://blokada.org/
All you have to do is download the app and active it. They have pre-built ad-block lists and they'll probably contain a ton to block amazon services. You can also add your own ones if you wish.
The Blokada app is extremely useful for watching content on demand services without having to watch adverts. It works for ITV, C4 and Five Demand but it won't work for youtube. If you want to watch youtube without adverts you should use the NewPipe app. Again this is also available on the F-Droid store. It works fairly well and also works for live content. You can also use it to play music in the background whilst having another app opened.
https://newpipe.schabi.org/
I'd add NextDNS as another option.
https://nextdns.io
Works on iOS as well as Android, windows etc. You can also use it with your router and it blocks ads & trackers across your home network. The online dashboard lets you choose what blocklists to use, see analytics, whitelist, etc. Next best thing to a piHole. Not FOSS though, if that matters to anyone.
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https://www.businessinsider.com/whole-foods-tracks-unionization-risk-with-heat-map-2020-1
Amazon-owned Whole Foods is quietly tracking its employees with a heat map tool that ranks which stores are most at risk of unionizing
good to see their priorities are correct.
What a boss
Cancel trillionaires
What do you even do with a trillion dollars?
It's a such shitty article though, even Daily Mail would have struggled to come with such nonsense.
There was a story about 2 years back showing how local news channels coordinated their pro-Trump segments during the Colin Kaepernick kneeling thing.
One more entity has the same power to disseminate propaganda as the US president.
"At least 10 stations across the country ran some form of the package on their news broadcasts. The package—you can view the script Amazon provided to news stations here—was produced by Amazon spokesperson Todd Walker. Only one station, Toledo ABC affiliate WTVG, acknowledged that Walker was an Amazon employee, not a news reporter. WTVG and WGXA in Macon, Georgia, noted that Amazon had supplied the video."
One more entity has the same power to disseminate propaganda as the US president.
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"At least 10 stations across the country ran some form of the package on their news broadcasts. The package—you can view the script Amazon provided to news stations here—was produced by Amazon spokesperson Todd Walker. Only one station, Toledo ABC affiliate WTVG, acknowledged that Walker was an Amazon employee, not a news reporter. WTVG and WGXA in Macon, Georgia, noted that Amazon had supplied the video."
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Some of the Amazon tactics spoken in congress, certainly around advertising spend of brands with Amazon, is very true. I've experienced it first hand. They also have an awful track record in terms of payments, withholding regularly.
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Woman catches Amazon driver mid-squat pooing in her garden
https://metro.co.uk/2020/08/04/woma...KqnBPoozVigVDu9umVCb0HNeUE2EhOFyqUz4di5k83qwE
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Since Amazon has the ambitions and cash if a state, it is logical they are starting to perform the functions of a state- spying on dissidents.
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I've read that Q has spread on TikTok as well as fb, making it possible to have a right-wing zoomer-boomer alliance.
I trust our little zoomer friends, the don’t take any bullshit. I wouldn’t be surprised to see them all conspiring together to expose this QAnon bullshit once and for all. It’ll be like Toto pulling back the curtain.