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Next year: Amazon is offering users $10 a month to let it watch them have sex in the bedroom. Why are we creating these fresh new hells all the time?

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trhr 4y ago
Jokes on them, that's a free $12/month since I barely use my phone and never have sex.
- upheaval7276 4y ago
  I'm sure the fine print will require a minimum number of encounters per 30-day period and a minimum duration per encounter.
  - Rebelgecko 4y ago
    It's probably more valuable for them to know if you aren't hitting a certain minimum threshold
    - upheaval7276 4y ago
      I took “watch” to mean record and concluded that Amazon is going to setup a new “marketplace” that competes with the likes of pornhub. I mean, why not at this point.
- version_five 4y ago
  They may be able to make back more than $12/mo with this knowledge from the average person in your circumstances
- tartoran 4y ago
  They’d sell your schedule to the highest bidder burglar and instructions how to get into the house and a breadcrumb trail to valuables in the house. Entry by summining Alexa and providing a one time use passphrase
- worldsavior 4y ago
  Nice.
- ashwagary 4y ago
  I worry they may use the data to direct attractive people to ruin your sexual abstinence.
Guthur 4y ago
Because our protections against these forces have been thoroughly eroded and destroyed. Democratic government is no longer working for us but rather against us, for the "elite" class that have bought it out from under us.
- gruez 4y ago
  > Because our protections against these forces have been thoroughly eroded and destroyed. This gets trotted out every time there's a "big tech violating our privacy" story, and it's correct most of the time but not this one. Amazon is offering you a purely voluntary choice to sell your data. What "protections" have been "thoroughly eroded and destroyed" in this case? You're free to not sell your data. If anything, you need to do more work (ie. install the app and opt in) to have your privacy invaded.
midoridensha 4y ago
Because people are suckers and keep falling for it. If no one took advantage of these "offers", these companies wouldn't bother. That said, if they offered me more than a lousy $2, and all they were tracking was phone calls (not anything on chat/talk apps, just the actual voice calling), I'd sign up, because it's free money. Who the hell uses the phone any more? They want to pay to see how many robocalls I get?

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trhr 4y ago

Jokes on them, that's a free $12/month since I barely use my phone and never have sex.

upheaval7276 4y ago
I'm sure the fine print will require a minimum number of encounters per 30-day period and a minimum duration per encounter.
- Rebelgecko 4y ago
  It's probably more valuable for them to know if you aren't hitting a certain minimum threshold
  - upheaval7276 4y ago
    I took “watch” to mean record and concluded that Amazon is going to setup a new “marketplace” that competes with the likes of pornhub. I mean, why not at this point.
version_five 4y ago
They may be able to make back more than $12/mo with this knowledge from the average person in your circumstances
tartoran 4y ago
They’d sell your schedule to the highest bidder burglar and instructions how to get into the house and a breadcrumb trail to valuables in the house. Entry by summining Alexa and providing a one time use passphrase
worldsavior 4y ago
Nice.
ashwagary 4y ago
I worry they may use the data to direct attractive people to ruin your sexual abstinence.

Guthur 4y ago

Because our protections against these forces have been thoroughly eroded and destroyed. Democratic government is no longer working for us but rather against us, for the "elite" class that have bought it out from under us.

gruez 4y ago
> Because our protections against these forces have been thoroughly eroded and destroyed. This gets trotted out every time there's a "big tech violating our privacy" story, and it's correct most of the time but not this one. Amazon is offering you a purely voluntary choice to sell your data. What "protections" have been "thoroughly eroded and destroyed" in this case? You're free to not sell your data. If anything, you need to do more work (ie. install the app and opt in) to have your privacy invaded.

midoridensha 4y ago

Because people are suckers and keep falling for it. If no one took advantage of these "offers", these companies wouldn't bother. That said, if they offered me more than a lousy $2, and all they were tracking was phone calls (not anything on chat/talk apps, just the actual voice calling), I'd sign up, because it's free money. Who the hell uses the phone any more? They want to pay to see how many robocalls I get?