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In an era where American ISPs charge extra to not spy on your non-encrypted traffic, it seems odd that Amazon doesn't care... improving the non-Amazon ads that you receive surely causes Amazon to lose money.

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There's also some fascinating anti-showrooming technology out there which monitors when you look at things over the store's guest wifi network. Browsing products on Amazon still isn't encrypted (as the article identifies) and neither is "Add to Cart".

http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/03/retailnext-acquires-eric-sc...

Can you elaborate on what you mean by ISP's charging extra? I'm not familiar with what you're referring to. Do you mean traffic shaping?

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/12/att-of...

ah, interesting. so the charitable, non-gratuitously-negative interpretation of the OP is that he or she is a very lazy summarizer. the uncharitable interpretation is that he or she uses deceptive rhetorical devices to bolster a weak point.

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