Amazon wants to start paying some users to monitor their móvil usage. What could go wrong?
Amazon will start Some of your users pay. In return, they must grant permission to the American company monitor all traffic data generated vía their teléfonos inteligentes.
This was announced by the company itself as part of its rewards program Amazon seller panel available in some countries. The deal is only offered to some users of the platform who are rewarded two dollars a month.
Two dollars a month in exchange for your traffic data
As they have confirmed in insider trading, only users who have been invited to the Amazon rewards program cánido participate in this program. who does it they get two dollars a month for the exchange of their traffic data, with the aim, according to Amazon, of Check what ads they see, where they saw them and what time of day.
This includes not only Amazon’s own ads, but also those of Amazon third displayed on the platform.
The company states that participating in this program will help brands offer better products and make ads more relevant. Participants cánido leave the program at any time, and those on the waitlist perro join to fill the gap.
Because Amazon’s Shopper Panel rewards program that allows users to earn up to $10 per month in exchange for sending your purchase receipts to Amazon, It is only available in the United States and United Kingdom.Amazon users from other countries cannot use this program.
Amazon isn’t the first major tech company to choose to “reward” its users in exchange for relevant information. Fb used to offer some users a reward of up to $20 for collecting their data. Google plus made something like Screenwise, that Google chrome extension which monitors usuario movements in the browser, in exchange for $5 Amazon Coupons.
It is not to be expected that the Amazon Shopper Panel will reach other countries, at least in the short term.