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Yeah, this is actually quite funny. You can also watch it on iTunes. Are Amazon and Apple exceptions with respect to selling your information? (I'm genuinely asking)

Apple’s whole stance is to protect your data. They don’t sell it.

Don’t know about Amazon but I think they use it for their own services only as they’re not advertising company. ---- EDIT: Brain fart, ignore

Amazon made $2 billion last quarter in advertisements. This is easily searchable, but here's the first result I found: https://marketingland.com/analysts-say-amazons-advertising-b...

As a comparison, Twitter made $758M in revenue last quarter.

Source?

Based on this link [1] posted elsewhere in this thread, if it is true that Amazon funded this, that has the potential to backfire spectacularly.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/19/17878332/creepy-line-anti...

It's streamed exclusively on Amazon Prime Now. Exclusives are funded by the company producing them (e.g. Netflix, Hulu, Youtube, etc)

Amazon didn't fund this.

Seems like a conflict of interest really.