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by jkaplan 1848 days ago
Can someone elaborate on the privacy concerns (e.g. with Amazon "becoming a pseudo-ISP")? It seems like most (if not all) of the network use would be Amazon devices anyway, which is data they already have. Additionally, as far as I know, Amazon isn't really in the business of selling ads or customer data, so they seem like they'd be relatively trustworthy (compared with, say Google, who's entire business is based off of selling ads, and also literally sell routers.) Is the concern just the threat that they could abuse this data? Is it just general "big company getting even bigger / having more data is bad" sentiment? Genuinely curious.

(The security concerns make sense to me -- most people and businesses assume their home network is closed, and this theoretically opens an attack vector. Asking specifically about privacy.)