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Tom Dacon[_4_] Tom Dacon[_4_] is offline
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Well, since you brought it up, what don't you like about their privacy
policy?
I am not familiar with it, but I have been satisfied with their prices and
service.
I'm learning to be wary of 3rd party sellers.

Bill


Well, Bill, their basic policy is "whatever we find out from you, we own,
like it or not, and we can use it any way we like".

And it really creeps me out the way their tentacles spread out through the
internet. I'll be browsing on some site, Amazon far from my mind and no
evidence whatsoever that the site I'm on is affiliated with Amazon, and
before you know it Amazon will be giving me buying suggestions based on
products that I browsed on that apparently-unrelated site.

Give me the willies.

I used to buy tools from an online outfit called Toolcrib or something like
that. Amazon bought them outright and integrated them into their site back
when they were aggressively expanding into other lines of business besides
books. I bought a couple of things in the tool line from them, but I soured
on them pretty quickly when I started reading about their privacy policies.
But sometimes when you're doing a search on something the Amazon link is the
best-looking one, and like I say, when I go there it really creeps me out to
find them popping up with their damned buying suggestions.

Tom