i hate amazon

[HisArpy]

You seem to have missed or completely and conveniently ignored the point of my previous comment. Let me repeat it for you: If I didn't do anything nefarious why should I worry about them investigating me?

Besides, if I was planning to, I damn sure wouldn't storm in there like a herd of buffalo leaving a track a mile wide for them to follow. The only ones stupid enough to do that are those who are arrogant enough to think they can't be caught or those stupid enough to think they won't be no matter what.



And if you do any business on the net at all, you've already given away your "private" data. If you believe that when you do the former you are not doing the latter, there is no reason for me to argue a point you've already erroneously made your mind up to so I won't.



Not really. There are other ways besides not using Facebook to prevent that. It's just that most are either ignorant of them, too lazy to use them or just don't care.

Comshaw

How about; because the LAW requires that they have at least "reasonable suspicion" that a crime has been committed or is being committed BY YOU before they can investigate you.

Or are you all in on the government just doing whatever the fuck it wants to you "because you haven't done anything nefarious"?

Hey, how's them Uigers doing?

Then, there's the fact that your unenlightened shopping trips through Amazon and Google give unknown individuals access into your private life. Fuck, you may as well leave the drapes over the bedroom window open and put a sign on the front lawn that men who come to visit you aren't your bros who're "just visiting" and "watching the game."


And, of course, meanwhile you hide behind a VPN and think you're cool.

 

[jaF0]

And we all know the PoPo always obeys the law to the letter and never bends any laws.

 

[Champakian]

This "year" you speak of, where you used Amazon to shop through, now means that Amazon/Google owns your ass.

They know what deodorant you use, what toothpaste, socks, underwear, clothing sizes, your address, when your preferred delivery time is and what options there are. They know the demographics of your neighborhood and its residents, how much money you make, what your creditworthiness is, whether you own your house or not, and so on.

And don't even think they don't. Your biometric data is valuable and you just give it away, repeatedly, every time you shop with Amazon.

I think all retailers have gone to that model which is why I try and shop with cash.

 

[HisArpy]

And we all know the PoPo always obeys the law to the letter and never bends any laws.

What does this have to do with the price of tea in China? Or this thread about hating Amazon for that matter?

 

[HisArpy]

I think all retailers have gone to that model which is why I try and shop with cash.

I believe the reason that Amazon is so huge and powerful (and why people continue to use it knowing the unwanted consequences) is that most people don't have any cash on hand.

It's all credit for them now and they work this month to pay for the excesses of last month while putting this month's bills "on the card" to be paid in installments beginning next month.

 

[HisArpy]

I am reminded of the radio commercial for one of the home mortgage lenders who is trying to get people to ReFi their homes and put 100K in the bank as a hedge against the next economic downturn.

Most people think that's a good idea. They're the ones who, if they had a home, would become customers.


Meanwhile few, if any, of them realize that putting that 100k in the bank will cost them 300k over the 30 year lifespan of the loan. The part that even fewer will catch is that the payments for that 300k could have been theirs (instead of the 100k they'll be left with) if they only put that money in the bank for those 30 years.


The one's who go down to the lender's store because of their commercial are the ones who shop Amazon and tell others that they don't care about the hidden consequences.

I don't shop Amazon. I also don't shop Walmart but for different reasons.

 

[Champakian]

I believe the reason that Amazon is so huge and powerful (and why people continue to use it knowing the unwanted consequences) is that most people don't have any cash on hand.

It's all credit for them now and they work this month to pay for the excesses of last month while putting this month's bills "on the card" to be paid in installments beginning next month.

It's probably part of the story.
I think there's also a part where people just don't think about it.

 

[HisArpy]

It's probably part of the story.
I think there's also a part where people just don't think about it.

That's probably true since most people don't think about much at all.

 

[adrina]

They're delivering my new socks tomorrow. I hope I like them. It should not be this difficult to get socks. And whoever decided to make socks out of a material that feels like microfiber and acts like velcro should have their head examined. Just sayin'.