Amazon has been in the surveillance and data collection and data mining game for most of its years.

They even tried to buy Roomba, which exists to send 3d images of your floor plan back to h.q. under the guise of cleaning.

IOT was never about our convenience. It was always about surveillance.

Do people really not know these things or are they waiting for the bandwagon to feel some kind of way?

None of this is new.
#surveillance #ring #amazon

RE: mastodon.social/@urlyman/11603…

- If you're locked in to Amazon with previous media purchases commit to no additional purchases. No more.
- Otherwise, delete your Amazon account. You can get their stuff elsewhere.
- Stop using Google's browser, search, services. Delete your account if possible.
- Stop using Microsoft's services services. Delete your account if possible.

Commit to getting out of these services. Stop using them, stop giving them your money.

#Genocide #BOYCOTT #Google #Microsoft #Amazon #Technology #Tech

So if you were wondering why Bezos was willing to sink $75 million into the melaina "I am eva braun" movie here is what $75 million get you

It saved Amazon 9 BILLION dollars this year alone

"Republicans’ tax cuts shaved billions off Amazon’s tax bill, new government filings show.

The company says it ran a $1.2 billion tax bill last year, down from $9 billion the previous year, and even as its profits jumped by 45 percent to nearly $90 billion."

Let that sink in: They Paid 1.2 billion ON 90 BILLION in profit THAT IS A TAX RATE of 1.3%

#melaniaTrump #amazon #bezos #taxes #bribe #politics #gop #trump #movie

politico.com/news/2026/02/06/a…

Anyone have any recommendations on how to obtain a copy of the book without going through Amazon?

#Signal #Book #Amazon #Kindle

Well done, Neil Young!

"If you feel as I do, I strongly recommend that you do not use Amazon"

rollingstone.com/music/music-n…

#NeilYoung #amazon #bezos #ICE #music

Neil Young Trashes Amazon, Gives His Catalog to Greenland For Free

Neil Young has escalated his way against Amazon due to Jeff Bezos' support of Trump, and is giving his music to the people of Greenland.

^{Andy Greene (Rolling Stone)}

The relentless layoffs at #Amazon continues.

Another 14,000 corporate jobs (10% of the workforce) is slated to be cut, after they’ve already cut 14,000 corporate jobs last October.

“Exclusive: Amazon plans thousands more corporate job cuts next week, sources say”

reuters.com/business/world-at-…

#Amazon: "rent this movie for $ or buy it for $$"

They know that they are not selling you a movie you keep, just a movie that you rent for a longer time.

This is #deceptive but it's also #profitable.

Why Subscriptions Make Everything More Expensive

#Subscription services exist for nearly everything consumers buy. Many, like #Netflix or #Spotify, start out affordable, but the cost adds up over time. And while signing up is effortless, cancelling can be difficult.

Companies such as #Adobe and #Amazon have even been accused by the Federal Trade Commission of using dark patterns to trap consumers in subscriptions.

youtube.com/watch?v=8AKn-zJMIw…

Jeff Bezos is saying the quiet part out loud. They want to kill local computing.

You will own nothing and be happy. You will rent your computing power from the cloud. You pay a subscription for the privilege of using a computer.

AI demand is artificially spiking DRAM prices and Big Tech is pushing "AI PCs," the squeeze is on to force us into a rental model.

Reject this future.

Keep your hardware local.

Run #Linux.

Own your data.

The "cloud" is just a landlord for your data.

#NoAi #FOSS #OpenSource #Privacy #SelfHost #SelfHosting #BigTech #RightToRepair #RAM #Amazon #EatTheRich

windowscentral.com/artificial-…

The rise and fall of Facebook (and other dominant online services). Interesting read.

#TedGioia #facebook #google #amazon

tedgioia.substack.com/p/how-we…

How Web Platforms Collapse: The Facebook Case Study

Or ten times Mark Zuckerberg jerked me around

^{Ted Gioia (The Honest Broker)}