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Originally Posted by carld
Opera's Mini Web Browser has been doing the exact same thing for over six years. No one seemed to care about this sort of thing until Amazon introduced Silk.
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People did (and do) care, it's just the mainstream doesn't understand half this stuff (people don't even understand cookies, or the amount of data that leaks through side channels), nor did Opera have the brand share that Amazon does. I personally find it creepy and wonder at what real performance increase it will have in a world where a lot of content comes from CDN's. I'd also be interested at the viability outside the US where I believe Amazon's datacentres are located in a limited range of locations and raise a whole raft of cross country privacy/legal issues. My local Amazon data centre is in Singapore not my home country for example, not to mention that Amazon is a US company bound by US law.
Yes it is nice you can turn it off, but frankly I think it should be op't in with nice clear language for what explicitly is being logged, but fat chance of any profit making business being that transparent.
I'm also still curious how it will handle SSL.