I can't believe anyone would buy an Amazon product after this, it's crazy! Can your other IOT things be shut off? Can your AWS account be disabled?
Amazon and other Tech companies are Huge because they provide people what they desire instantly with no friction.
Why setup a HA instance and learn to manage things yourself when you can just outsource it
But people actually do want the kinds of features enabled by IoT devices on top of cloud infrastructure and they're reasonably priced. It's not idiocy, it's utility.
And you're free not to buy into it. It's no skin off your back.
> And you're free not to buy into it. It's no skin off your back.
Of course. It's absolutely no skin off my back. I'm just expressing that I don't understand why people choose to do this. It's also true that I don't need to understand! But I am curious.
especially the case for google. ex, with their anti adblock movement in youtube, there's a small chance you might find yourself locked from your emails, GCP, Drive and every other service if they decide to be more aggressive about it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36747367
But yeah all of it is speculation really, right? There's no facts here you'd bet large sums on being as described - yet it's entirely possible some are too. Who knows?
And that's why we have laws and courts to deal with bad behavior.