A program to get money when you pass smartphone data to Amazon starts, but the reward is only $ 2 a month
For some users, Amazon has launched a program that pays $ 2 (about 270 yen) as a reward instead of allowing the tracking of terminal traffic.
You deserve more than $2 for running your phone's data through Amazon - The Verge
Amazon has been running an invitation-only program `` Amazon Shopper Panel '' that offers $ 10 (about 1300 yen) if you shoot and send 10 or more receipts a month. In addition to this, `` Ad Verification '' that pays $ 2 a month to users who agree to send data such as viewed advertisements, websites, apps that displayed them, time of viewing, etc. to Amazon I know it started a few months ago.
Amazon will now pay you a $2 monthly reward to monitor all your device traffic. Disable VPN for more than 48 hrs and no reward hah pic.twitter.com/qMxNirgJHe
—Taylor Wimberly (@wimbet) December 2, 2022
According to the frequently asked questions posted on the Amazon Shopper Panel official website , when you turn on the Ad Verification function, you will be asked to allow VPN connection in the smartphone OS settings.
However, in reality, VPN service is not provided, and all DNS traffic is sent to Amazon's server, and browsing information of Amazon advertisements and advertisements of third-party companies posted through Amazon is recorded. increase. You can temporarily turn off Ad Verification for private communications that you don't want to send to Amazon, but if Ad Verification is turned off for more than 48 hours in a month, you won't receive any rewards. It will end up.
Amazon isn't the only company to campaign to demand privacy in exchange for money. In 2016, Meta (then Facebook) implemented a program to install the VPN function of the Facebook Research app instead of paying a maximum of $ 20 (about 2700 yen) per month, and Google also tracked user data in 2012. I have offered a service that pays $ 5 (about 680 yen) every 3 months instead of using a browser extension that does.
The IT news site The Verge, which covered Amazon's Ad Verification this time, said, ``What stands out about all of these programs, including Amazon's, is how little reward there is for people who submit themselves to large-scale panopticon technology. Even if you don't mind the lack of privacy, at least you should ask for more compensation from the companies with the highest market capitalization in the world.'
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