re: Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Internet with neighbors

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So either you’re a fan of these “encroachments,” as you called them, or you’re a hypocritical “sheep” yourself. Which is it?

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Hmmm. Good question, though it doesn’t take away from my attempt to point out the ignorant hypocrisy many are showing off with their displeasure here.

I’m definitely a sheep. Facebook’s been doing this long before I had a smartphone, and I’ve had a G-Mail account since the late 90’s. Googling has been giving them info re: my search habits for even longer, obviously.

Both of those time periods I wasn’t aware the extent that my habits and profile info and data were commodified. But at some point I became aware. It’s not as if I can walk all that info back into anonymity. The toothpaste is out of the tube to use the operative analogy.

So, you do what you can. Obviously we know these companies want to use something of ours (info, data, bandwidth in this case) to provide an innovative service to generate profits with. Some should opt out if they don’t like it. But it’s hardly the first time these companies behaved this way, or mined your data, info or bandwidth for their gain.

That genie has long been out of the bottle. It has been for the crustiest posters on this board. You can use a VPN and a Proton Mail account. That works.

But local mortgage companies pay to get your name and contact info when other local mortgage companies put a hard pull on your credit. This has been going on for DECADES.

This is just a different angle in a never ending cycle of data we generate as humans being used for ways to make money.

If you don’t want it, opt out. But don’t act like this is hill you’re gonna die on, or clutch your pearls like you just found out how these people pay the Bills.