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cshenoy on Sept 28, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Introducing Amazon Silk

To be fair, Amazon is doing what our ISPs do already: cache sites to deliver it faster.

Also, Amazon's privacy statement says you can make Silk a normal browser by selecting the "off-cloud" mode [1]. Off-cloud mode allows web pages to go directly to the device rather than pass through their servers. I'm sure most users won't know of this option but at least it is an option.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/?nodeId=...

mcantelon on Sept 28, 2011 [–]

They do claim they're going to monitor browsing patterns. More food for their recommendation engines.

johndavi on Sept 28, 2011 | | [–]

http://www.streamliner.co/s/etX3i/amazon-silk-amazons-revolu... is where they say this

thebigshane on Sept 28, 2011 | | [–]

Source? Was that in the video? I hadn't read that anywhere.

artursapek on Sept 28, 2011 | | | [–]

Yes it was, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u7F_56WhHk&t=3m55s

mcantelon on Sept 28, 2011 | | | [–]

Yeah, they mentioned that in the video where the engineer-y guys were talking (it's about 3/4 the way into the video if I remember correctly).

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