A service that sends you a printed copy of the entire Amazon catalog and your Facebook and Instagram feeds to you in the mail every week to so they can't track your browsing habits.
Posted Jul 26, 2019, 3:31 PM UTC
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Crazier idea would be if Amazon had like a small warehouse in each city with a selection of their most commonly purchased products, and you could go buy it with cash. They could even start selling groceries, maybe have greeters at the doors... Wait.
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Oh they definitely track shopping habits at those stores, and record your image every second of it. Throw in some facial recognition and the internet will once again be way more anonymous than real life, the bar will just have moved.
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Omg the government's gonna getcha!!
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Haha, what does the government care? I'm just waiting for commercials to start playing in the middle of my dreams.
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You laugh, but Amazon made a brick and mortar store and this is what they did. They used facial recognition and object tracking software to follow you through the store and keep track of everything in your basket. Whatever was on the list when you leave, is paid for the moment you walk out
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I've had ads pushed to me at home after just LOOKING at a product at the grocery store. Coincidence? Maybe but I don't think so.
Now, I boycott products where the manufacturer uses these obtrusive tactics. They pretend that they do this to better satisfy your needs. I'm good enough at taking care of what I need.
We all know that their real interest is in not just a revenue stream but a steady, predictable, controllable one. The loss of privacy and the increase in advertising isn't worth whatever incremental convenience they think they're providing.
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The first half of this is actually how prime now (their 1 hour delivery service) works. They keep distribution centers (warehouses) in many cities which have a selection of their most commonly purchased products. So they're halfway there!
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And could have huge swaths of land devoted to these stores. So that would have a shelf life of 30 years without fear of competition
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So you think they should be WalMart?
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There are Amazon book stores around where I live. It's weird.
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I want a browser extension that clicks on like 2 million links a week in the background somewhere and emulates human browsing. now THAT woudl confuse some tracking!!!! :)
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I think Mozilla has this actually
Edit: https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/hey-advertisers-track-this/ found it
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NICE!!! thank you. I will try it now! :)
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Adnauseum might also interest you
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That was not very good at blocking ads and blocking popups for me.
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I was hoping someone could print out the entire internet for me once a week.
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How does this prevent anybody from tracking your browsing habits? They literally need that very data in order to send you this
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They mean that if you use a catalog you don’t need to type in everything you’re interested in which they use to make targeted advertising
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Ahhh that actually makes sense ty
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Targeted advertising is generally done by tracking OTHER sites you visit, using tracking cookies. Not just what you're doing on their site.
If you visit tech blogs, the advertiser sees the referrer for the request as coming from a tech blog, so they show you tech ads on other sites.
This doesn't prevent them from tracking you, it just prevents you from seeing the result of your tracking
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. . .with all that wasted paper, there won't be an Amazon left after a week!
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Take that "the environment." Bonus points if they had sections where you could mail the poster your reaction/replies.
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Or an app that will click on every link and preload those pages and show you just the ones you care about.
Same idea but no trees....
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Have you thought about ecology?
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Except they would be able to track them. They already use programs to aggregate your purchases done in various brick and mortar stores, wouldn't be that hard to use the same systems to track your purchases on Amazon. It might be harder to combine it all together as a single entity, but companies would always find a way to get around anything someone attempts.
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Cut down the entire actual amazon for the paper used
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Or just go outside, buy shit, come back.
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Why printed? Digital bruh
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Or use Tor
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Crazier stuff, since toys r us went out of business I'm pretty sure Amazon will put out a toy book this year
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In all seriousness, if you want to minimize sites tracking your browsing habits, look into Firefox’s Containers add-on.
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Accelerate climate change through narcasism. Woo
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For social media, there would be a lot of copies. If you wanted to look at someone's profile, there would be a page for that, you'd need all of their posts, the comments on those posts, the profiles of the commenters, anyone they tagged, etc.
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You mean like the Sears Catalog?
If the Sears Catalog were like 1000 books each 5000 pages, you might make a small dent.
There would be such a huge selection of ladies' underwear for me to jerk off to while I'm pretending to take a poop because home internet access isn't a thing yet.
You just described my childhood.
No, he just described every guy's childhood ;)
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That's what got me thinking about it.
That reminds me I got a hot date
Bzzzzt that’s a lie