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Host an event you where you're hoping to co-opt third party developers into using and evangelizing your platform. Provide a lousy interface to navigate the eve

by tyingq 3y ago

Host an event you where you're hoping to co-opt third party developers into using and evangelizing your platform. Provide a lousy interface to navigate the event. Send cease and desist notices to those same developers when they try to improve it. Hmm.

neilv 3y ago
Well, for one reason, having third-party apps for an AWS event that might confuse users about how official/genuine what they're saying is... could be a big security problem. (For example, you just know that some users would be willing to enter their IAM credentials when prompted at some point.) There's also all the marketing data leakage, and access to the users to promote other companies' products, or maybe even get an affiliate/intermediate cut for AWS sales that were already AWS's leads to begin with.
- tyingq 3y ago
  There's a fair amount of precedent for third party sites hosting schedules, descriptions, and other info about other entities events. Google, as one example, has quite a few widget type things that pop up if you use a search query asking about specific events, concert tours, etc. Try "upcoming conferences", "taylor swift concert dates". Or, similar things like airline and train schedules.
- simonebrunozzi 3y ago
  Timing is unfortunate. They should have done it since the beginning, months ago.
- londons_explore 3y ago
  > might confuse users The email from AWS could easily have said: We request you put a notice on every page saying "This is a copy of data from <Official Site>. Please check there to verify correctness". If you don't want to add such a notice, then we respectfully request you take this data down, since it is against our terms to host the data in this fashion.
  - nine_k 3y ago
    That would be nice. But how would they check that the trackers comply? Taking down has the advantage of being easy to enforce.
    - deleted 3y ago
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    - RadiozRadioz 3y ago
      I think the enforceability of these things is roughly equivalent.

by tyingq 3y ago

neilv 3y ago

Well, for one reason, having third-party apps for an AWS event that might confuse users about how official/genuine what they're saying is... could be a big security problem. (For example, you just know that some users would be willing to enter their IAM credentials when prompted at some point.) There's also all the marketing data leakage, and access to the users to promote other companies' products, or maybe even get an affiliate/intermediate cut for AWS sales that were already AWS's leads to begin with.

tyingq 3y ago
There's a fair amount of precedent for third party sites hosting schedules, descriptions, and other info about other entities events. Google, as one example, has quite a few widget type things that pop up if you use a search query asking about specific events, concert tours, etc. Try "upcoming conferences", "taylor swift concert dates". Or, similar things like airline and train schedules.
simonebrunozzi 3y ago
Timing is unfortunate. They should have done it since the beginning, months ago.
londons_explore 3y ago
> might confuse users The email from AWS could easily have said: We request you put a notice on every page saying "This is a copy of data from <Official Site>. Please check there to verify correctness". If you don't want to add such a notice, then we respectfully request you take this data down, since it is against our terms to host the data in this fashion.
- nine_k 3y ago
  That would be nice. But how would they check that the trackers comply? Taking down has the advantage of being easy to enforce.
  - deleted 3y ago
    [deleted]
  - RadiozRadioz 3y ago
    I think the enforceability of these things is roughly equivalent.