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[–] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What you describe is actually how it works. If they actually sent all you say to their servers, it would be trivial to detect with a network analyser.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

And if they were found to be sending it all the time, holy fuck the fines would end the company.

[–] EatYouWell@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Lol, what are you talking about? When was the last time the FTC ended a company over shady privacy practices?

Amazon would get a fine that would amount to like 0.001% of one day's profits.