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Originally Posted by vaughnmr
What's kinda tickling my funny bone, is that you've singled out Amazon. No mention of Apple, or B&N, or any of the other sites that could sell you ebooks. Not to mention any of the other web related, government related, or any other commercial related sites (banks, insurance, medical records, drivers license, IRS, Social Security) need I go on... You are too late, they've already got your a**! How about sharing news about the information THOSE sites either sell or share? Or is this just a Amazon bashing thread?
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I've got absolutely nothing against Amazon - in fact I've just ordered £130 worth of pbooks from them because i can't get them as ebooks, and I can't get the pbooks cheaper elsewhere. And I do acknowledge that other book sellers will keep information about my purchasing and probably browsing activity. But I on this occasion I wasn't looking at Amazon to buy a book, I was looking at Amazon with a view to buying a device for reading books. If all that Amazon required me to agree to was for them keep details of my purchases of ebooks I would have no more grounds for complaint than I do against other ebook sellers. But they don't - they require of me that I agree to them having continued and ongoing access to the device after I have bought it, at times and for purposes they deem fit. Their intentions might be entirely innocent but I have no way of telling because I don't know what their intentions are - but even whilst not knowing this I am required, as a condition of buying a Kindle, to agree to them having that access. So, for me, that is a condition I'm not willing to accept.
And I don't own any Apple devices, so have now idea what access they would require to them if I did.