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37 votes
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Amazon Prime Video will start showing ads on January 29th
102 votes -
Why we don’t recommend Ring cameras: They’re affordable and ubiquitous, but homeowners shouldn’t be able to act as vigilantes
29 votes -
Man unable to interact with any of his smart devices for a week after delivery driver accuses him of being racist
89 votes -
Netflix, YouTube, Amazon and Apple accused of GDPR breach
27 votes -
AWS eIP price change. What's your plan?
28 votes -
Amazon unveiled Key for Garage—a system that allows Amazon drivers to unlock garage doors to make secure deliveries.
15 votes -
Amazon has too many ways of watching you now
23 votes -
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said the company does not have plans to stop selling the antisemitic film that gained notoriety recently after Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving tweeted out an Amazon link to it
8 votes -
The Kindle is fine. It could’ve been much more than that.
27 votes -
Amazon grows to over 750,000 robots as world's second-largest private employer replaces over 100,000 humans
29 votes -
Elizabeth Warren proposes breaking up Amazon, Google, and Facebook
48 votes -
Amazon’s mission: Getting a ‘key’ to your apartment building
9 votes -
Amazon devices in the US will automatically join the Amazon Sidewalk mesh network and start sharing internet with neighbors on June 10th, unless opted out
30 votes -
I filed a complaint against Amazon to the US Federal Trade Commission
Mods: I put this in Tech because Amazon is a tech company, if this is the wrong group I apologize. For the last several purchases I have made through Amazon, not only has the advertised "expected...
Mods: I put this in Tech because Amazon is a tech company, if this is the wrong group I apologize.
For the last several purchases I have made through Amazon, not only has the advertised "expected delivery date" been wrong, Amazon hasn't even shipped the product by the delivery date. The day I expect an order to arrive, I get a notice from Amazon saying it's "running late" and the new expected delivery date is anywhere from 4 to 10 days away.
This is on top of the fact that I have Amazon Prime. Prime eligible meant "it would be delivered within two days" for the better part of a decade. They slowly transitioned away from that to "two days delivery after it ships," and now it seems like half of everything takes 5-8 days to deliver, even with Prime.
Anyway, the reason I reported them to the FTC because I believe they are advertising misleading or downright incorrect delivery times in hopes of winning your business over a competitor who is honest about their delivery times. If I want a monitor and Best Buy has it for $200 with 3-5 day shipping, and Amazon advertises it being delivered on day 3, I'm probably going to go with Amazon if I'm in urgent need of a monitor. But then the third day rolls around and Amazon indicates "oh, well, it's probably going to be 3-4 more days." If I had known that, I would have just gone with Best Buy, where I know it would have at least been delivered in 5 days; now I'm stuck waiting a week for Amazon.
I don't even know if this is something the FTC cares about. But it should. I encourage everyone to report this if they've encountered the same issue.
80 votes -
Amazon is acquiring iRobot
21 votes -
Looking to cancel Amazon Prime for ethical reasons (and quality decline) - what are my alternatives for online shopping?
For the past few years, I've grown more and more uneasy with Amazon's business practices. I think it's time to move on. Not to mention the declining quality in products since international...
For the past few years, I've grown more and more uneasy with Amazon's business practices. I think it's time to move on. Not to mention the declining quality in products since international shippers were added (as discussed in the podcast Reply All).
I'm addicted to the convenience of 2 day shipping, even though we use Amazon less and less, I like knowing I have that option.
I've been considering a Costco membership instead - how does their online shopping and shipping times/prices compare?
I've also considered using Jet more but I don't know much about their ethics, does anyone?
Open to other alternatives and discussion about business ethics here.
33 votes -
Anyone else having a bad day because of the AWS us-east-1 outage?
25 votes -
Amazon is buying home mesh router startup, Eero
15 votes -
Is it a good idea to use an AWS server as a vpn?
I have an amazon server that I use to host my email and my simple website. I'm considering setting a vpn up on it, but I'm not sure if it's worth it. Would my data be as secure as with 3rd party...
I have an amazon server that I use to host my email and my simple website. I'm considering setting a vpn up on it, but I'm not sure if it's worth it. Would my data be as secure as with 3rd party vpns? Would Amazon see my traffic? It seems like if I go this route, anything that I do could be traced back to me, because the see the ip of my server and than ask amazon who owns it.
10 votes -
Amazon Ring cameras were used to spy on customers
32 votes -
A West Virginia judge largely denied Amazon's motion to dismiss lawsuit over selling a spycam disguised as a bathroom hook
22 votes -
Online grocery shopping has been slow to catch on - We shop online for almost everything. Why not food?
11 votes -
Some Amazon reviews are too good to be believed. They're paid for.
21 votes -
Stability AI reportedly ran out of cash to pay its bills for rented cloudy GPUs
28 votes -
How a single developer dropped AWS costs by 90%, then disappeared
16 votes -
Amazon will remove the Parler site from AWS
35 votes -
Amazon scraps secret AI recruiting tool that showed bias against women
15 votes -
AI’s new frontier: Connecting grieving loved ones with the deceased
7 votes -
Amazon shared Ring security camera and video doorbell footage with police without a warrant
31 votes -
A small group of American Amazon employees is being paid to defend and promote the company on Twitter
16 votes -
Engineers say 'no thanks' to Silicon Valley recruiters, citing ethical concerns
29 votes -
No, you can’t get a 16TB SSD for a hundred bucks
5 votes -
US Democrats circulate draft antitrust bills that could reshape Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google
15 votes -
Google and Amazon make up — YouTube coming to Fire TV
8 votes -
Millions of Facebook records were exposed on public Amazon server
14 votes -
Amazon introduces Q, an AI chatbot for companies
16 votes -
Amazon asked Apple to remove an app that spots fake reviews, and Apple agreed
19 votes -
Amazon changed its search system to boost more-profitable listings, including its own brands
19 votes -
Amazon pulls ads from Bloomberg, and Apple did not invite Bloomberg to its Oct. 30 event—both allegedly over China hacking story
18 votes -
Amazon Alexa for Residential will let the voice assistant power apartment complexes
15 votes -
Amazon plans to move completely off Oracle software by early 2020
20 votes -
Connecting Amazon Echo Dot to smart TV
I'm wondering if anyone here might be able to help me with this. We've bought a Amazon Echo Dot for my Grandma who's no longer able to see very well. The idea was to connect it to her Smart TV so...
I'm wondering if anyone here might be able to help me with this.
We've bought a Amazon Echo Dot for my Grandma who's no longer able to see very well. The idea was to connect it to her Smart TV so that she would be able to navigate it using voice commands rather than the remote (which she can't see).
I've been able to add the TV as a device on the Alexa app, however I'm unable to get Alexa to carry out any commands on the TV - change the channel, open an app etc.
I believe that what I need to do is connect the TV to the Echo Dot via Bluetooth. Is this correct? Is it functionally a different thing than having something as a device in the app? Currently when I go to the TV under devices and click to manage linked Alexa devices, the Echo Dot is greyed out because it's already paired with a device (presumably the iPad where I've downloaded the app as there are no other devices connected).
If the lack of bluetooth connection is the issue, I'll need to buy a Bluetooth transmitter for the TV has it doesn't have bluetooth capability. So I just wanted to see if anyone had any advice for me before I invest in another piece of tech.
8 votes -
The Apple, Google, and Amazon-backed smart home standard Matter has arrived. So what’s next?
11 votes -
Amazon releases "Halo" wearable which analyzes emotions in the user's voice
14 votes -
What exactly are these “Amazon FC Ambassadors” on Twitter, how many of them are there, and are they actually real people?
28 votes -
Amazon to launch new grocery-store business, distinct from Whole Foods
12 votes -
A simple plan to dissolve Facebook, Google, and Amazon, from the man who coined the term "net neutrality"
30 votes -
In US lawsuit, ex-Amazon AI exec claims she was asked to ignore IP law
25 votes -
Leaving Amazon - Tim Bray (former VP) on whistleblowers, climate strikes, sexism, and racism at Amazon
27 votes