Thread: Amazon Sidewalk to go Live on 08 Jun
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Old 06-08-2021, 09:35 PM   #90
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer View Post
Does everybody get all up in arms if a program uses a portion of their bandwidth to periodically check for new versions of itself by default?
You are confusing doing something FOR YOU, vs. doing something FOR OTHERS.

Amazon is doing something to benefit OTHERS, using YOUR resources, without asking you. Now, helping others is all well and good, but it is not Amazon's place to do so with YOUR RESOURCES without asking.

What if Amazon decides to take "just a little"? Then Apple takes just a little. Google gets in on it next and takes a bit more. Then Microsoft. Then Samsung. Facebook is next up to take another chunk. Then Twitter, then untold others. They all do this now. But it is to provide a service to YOU (plus a bunch of spying and other crap that provides benefit to THEM). Now we're hitting the slippery slope where they want to take a little more from you and provide service to OTHERS with it. These OTHERS are no party to the contact between YOU and the SERVICE that you are using.
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