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Is it clear this really shares all your internet? The initial plans were for a trickle - 100kbs or so. I mention this as I'm on 1Gbps, so this would be 0.0001 o
by whoknowswhat11 5y ago
Is it clear this really shares all your internet? The initial plans were for a trickle - 100kbs or so. I mention this as I'm on 1Gbps, so this would be 0.0001 or so of my bandwidth as far as I can tell.
In terms of privacy - my current traffic is monitored by my ISP (and data is sold). They say that this does even more but what - a lot of these systems actually encrypt and hide from ISP.
- pseudosavant 5y agoIt specifically states that there is an 80kbps max between a Sidewalk bridge and Amazon's servers, and a 500MB/month data cap.
- rolph 5y agowith 80k you can connect to a torrentswarm and seed out[slowly] what? topsite pr0n, perhaps something noone ever wants to be accused of seeding so use nieghbours bandwidth
- unicornfinder 5y agoIndeed, which honestly makes this a bit of a non-story in my opinion. A bit of a misleading headline.
- alfiedotwtf 5y agoSharing more than zero bytes is still sharing.
- t-writescode 5y agoUnless someone figured out how to create a Tor exit node through that system.
- A4ET8a8uTh0 5y agoHmm. It is not a big story and it is misleading, but it is not a non-story. If Amazon grants itself a right to my bandwidth without compensating me that is not insubstantial. Not all of us ride on fiber with unlimited everything. Giant corp skimming resources off of little guy. And we don't even know if that is all they are doing yet.
- Spivak 5y agoI mean do you get compensated for the bandwidth your iPhone uses to participate in the FindMy network?
- lxgr 5y agoIt's arguable that you get compensated by having access to Alexa at no cost. Even though the two don't necessarily have anything to do with each other, Alexa is essentially a loss leader (unless it's folded entirely into the sales price of the Echo speaker, which I doubt). In that sense, the economics seem pretty comparable to ad support on the internet to me: By letting advertisers use your internet connection, processing power, screen space, and time, you get access to content that would otherwise be behind a paywall. And ads use up data caps and congest networks as well, in some cases even more so than the actual "pay"load! I know that some people object to ads on the internet on the same grounds (usage of one's resources without compensation or consent), but this is a wholly different story from the liability issues that operating an open wi-fi hotspot can cause.
- jon-wood 5y agoAlexa is another sales channel for Amazon. The fact it can be used for setting timers, toggling lights, and looking up stuff from Wikipedia is all tangential to making Amazon your default choice for ordering something while cooking and paying for Prime so you can listen to music.
- tjohns 5y agoIf you're on a metered internet connection, that's still 500 MB/month the user is paying for without consent.
- BoorishBears 5y agoIt's a maximum of 500MB a month. This stuff is designed for low power devices sending out a kb status update every few hours, otherwise they'd just put a normal wifi radio in it, and all the people here complaining that the Amazon devices they already put on their networks are now sending more data would just connect them to their wifi networks without an issue.
- cortic 5y agoFaster than my first (56k) modem, that's a lot of personal data going over untrusted hardware.
- catlifeonmars 5y agoProbably over TLS.