Amazon Sidewalk - "Sharing" your network bandwidth with the neighbors

https://www.amazon.com ^ | 11.24.2020 | Amazon

[rxsid]

FYI

Amazon Sidewalk - "Sharing" your network bandwidth with the neighbors

[RightGeek]

Is Amazon a comedy site?

[BenLurkin]

I don’t get it. What is the point of “sharing bandwidth?”

[Responsibility2nd]

Oh Yay!

Not only will Amazon be spying on me, but so will the neighbors!

Seriously! Who comes up with this crap??

[EEGator]

Socialist brainwashing?
Weird porn search blame deflecting?

[Billthedrill]

Some of us are still on metered connections (sigh). So no.

[Myrddin]

Socialism is the point. Amazon is redistributing your wealth using their technical platform. It's a good opportunity to review your firewall configuration and block this theft of service.

[Leep]

“help devices stay online even if they are outside the range of their home wifi”

Isn’t that called public wifi?

I miss the days of Webtv...sure you could download anything...but you could get online for $9 a month.

[brownsfan]

Uh, no.

[Vision]

This is a crazy idea but you can disable the feature.

[Leep]

could’NT download that is.

[Uncle Miltie]

Coincidentally, Bezos will track everything.

Surprise!

[AppyPappy]

Didn’t WebTV type everything in caps?

[RainMan]

It is simple. It is a way to convince people to open a port into their home network so that their personal devices can be more easily hacked. I have been “given” 3 amazon devices over the years, and refuse to implement them, simply because I dont want anything “listening” to the conversations in my home ... then F-N Dish built the crap into their boxes and used that to replace their voice control on the remote, so I dumped Dish. Now Xfinity doing the same. Running out of options to keep the stuff out of my house. According to the article, this is now built into Ring so now I need to toss the Ring.

[PAR35]

Sounds like a good way for pervs to download kiddie porn and leave someone else holding the bag.

No thanks.

[Leep]

No ...only the subscribers did that...Webtv folks were not liked by the sophisticated win98 crowd...many who paid $1500 plus dollars to be able to conduct a internet search for stuff like “small sized” only to be accidentally sent to porn sites involving midgets and the like.

[jcon40]

***** Customers who own Sidewalk.....will not be able to identify which Bridge they are connected to.****

That’s just rich

[wildcard_redneck]

Another ‘altruistic’ data harvesting scheme. You can smell the stink of totalitarian evil a mile away.

[Oshkalaboomboom]

They are building Alexa and Google voice capability into televisions now. I wonder if they will be able to snoop on you even if you don’t activate them?