![]() ![]() Before it broke that Echo and Siri queries were sometimes listened to by 3rd-party contractors, if I had posted that suspicion on HN people would have called me paranoid. I bring this up every time that one of these threads/stories gets posted, but there's (appologies, but for lack of a better word) some kind of weird gaslighting that always happens in these situations. To go a step farther, I also don't understand why it's LARPing to be worried about a company who is actively being investigated for misusing seller data. For some people, targeted advertising is a harm regardless of whether or not the company knows their name. Privacy is about more than stalkers, it's about the effects of data usage. Targeted marketing is, in itself, something that's reasonable for someone to want to block regardless of whether or not there's a mustached villain tracking you. > We also use it to develop and improve products and features for all our customers and to gain insights into how our products are being used, assess customer engagement, identify potential quality issues, analyze our business, and customize marketing offers. Of course, if you're using Amazon to get your books they'll still build a profile of your reading habits, but there's something about tracking the exact parts of a book I'm reading, the bits I might linger on or reread, which feels extra intrusive to me, and which I categorically don't want. I have one Kindle, and it comes with me if I think I'm going to have the opportunity to read when I'm out of the house. I like the "e-reader" experience, and I have no desire to read books on a phone or tablet. I don't need the sync functionality, or to be able to look things up on the internet (not being able to do that is a feature as far as I'm concerned!). I download the ebooks themselves using the Kindle application on my computer (if I'm using Amazon to get them, which I don't always), and then use Calibre to manage/import/convert/strip DRM from them. ![]() I seem to remember having to allow it to connect to Amazon once when I first took it out of the box, but since then, no network connectivity at all, and zero problems as a result. Mine has been in aeroplane mode since the day I got it. Zql=Kindle%20Collects%20a%20Surprisingly%20Large%20Amount%20of%20DataĮqm=https%3A%2F%%2Fkindle-collects-a-surprisingly-large-amount-of-data%2F There are valid concerns here (there's too much information being sent overall - the location data doesn't need to be sent with every page turn, for example), but these concerns are being buried behind FUD about none of this data needing to be transmitted.ĮDIT: Can I also point out the ironic nature of griping about Amazon's analytics collection while running an analytics suite on the webpage yourself? And, when you highlight a word, the translation, definition, and wiki page is brought up, so of course it's being sent to bing and wikipedia. It's also appropriate to tie a location to a device, so you can pick the appropriate device to sync your position from. To sync a "last read page" across devices, you need to send a location back to Amazon. This statement - "None of these requests appear to be used for customer features like last read location." - bugs me, because it's fairly obviously false, and detracts from the real concerns.
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