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> Cutting Amazon from my life meant losing access to any site hosted by Amazon Web Services, the internet’s largest cloud provider. Stopped reading here. Thou
by kaydub 6y ago
> Cutting Amazon from my life meant losing access to any site hosted by Amazon Web Services, the internet’s largest cloud provider.
Stopped reading here.
Thought this was going to be an experiment on privacy. Like, blocking trackers and not using the giant providers SaaS offerings.
- WealthVsSurvive 6y agoRemind me of the US law that stops AWS from copying the business models of their customers? They didn't seem to have much difficulty getting around copying physical products from their seller customers.
- 9nGQluzmnq3M 6y agoIt's not, but perhaps it makes an even deeper point: that it is genuinely impossible to use the Internet without Amazon, Google and Microsoft, because so much of the web relies on the three giants, and every click you make adds a fraction of a cent to their hosting revenues. That said, I do agree that madness lies going too down the supply chain. Is using any device with a lithium-ion battery inherently immoral because they contain some cobalt that may have been mined in exploitative conditions in the Congo? Where do you draw the line?
- jrumbut 6y agoAmazon and Google can't track who connects to their cloud servers? I find that hard to believe. That's what unique about these companies. When AT&T owned telecommunications infrastructure it wasn't also a major retailer, a movie studio, a logistics company, etc.