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If the point is to get away from large, data hungry corps than going to Amazon would be a funny choice.

I agree, I'd rather suggest FastMail or even ProtonMail which has paid offerings. At least they make a profit from you paying for their services (at least in regards to FastMail).

Remind me again when Amazon was tracking me on every single website what I am visiting. Amazon's business is not primarily driven by ads and massive data collection. Google is an ad company with some distraction products like Android and Gmail so that they can collect more data and track you better. Amazon's revenue comes from the web store by selling goods and from AWS providing IT cloud services. I am not sure how could you equate Google and Amazon.

I am not really sure if you are serious or not but Amazon would love to have the data Google has access to. They are suggesting you stuff based on everything you do, and suggestions only become more accurate if they have all your data.

If you host your email with Amazon WorkMail they have access to all your emails just like Gmail or G Suite does.

Amazon is in the ad-biz and they're already near the top of the pile [0]. They're in the silent data gathering phase. All the data they have from 1) eCommerce 2) device like Firestick/kindle/alexa 3) apps like Audible 4) retail (wholefoods) and all their other operations can be combined (if not already governed by a single privacy policy) to leapfrog any competitor.

As you say, they are not dependent on their ad business, but they are making a lot of money from it. Expanding operations to improve profits is a no-brainer and they can existing distribution networks like AWS to have an extra edge.

[0 ]https://digiday.com/marketing/amazon-ad-revenue-2-2b-132-per...

At least it's a different one, and at least Amazon typically offers a straightforward exchange of money-for-service/product, as opposed to directly monetizing surveillance.

Amazon recently launched a Ad Network...

https://developer.amazon.com/mobile-ads

And?

...and moving from one company to another with the same vision is a silly idea? Pretty obvious...

I'm not saying Amazon is great, but I'd rather there was at least competition instead of one giant company monopolizing every service I use online.

With AWS services you can encrypt everything with your own keys etc. how cool is that? You also get the option to select a region where to store your data.

Your point is moot, sorry

...moving to another conglomerate being silly is definitely not a moot point.

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