Originally Posted by
DMSFCA
I'm surprised that given all the people here on FT that go crazy stating they would never use Dropbox because it holds all their secure data, would use the web browser on the Fire that puts 100% of the data through Amazon. Do you really not think they are going to mine that data? I didn't see any speed increase over just hitting the same sites with the iPad, btw.
Amazon said it would only mine aggregate data, not individually identifiable data. They may be lying, but that would have legal consequences when it's discovered.
They also say you can turn off the cloud function and just use it as a regular browser.
Or install Opera mini (which may have its own privacy issues).
I've read a lot of reviews and forums and have not seen any posts in which anyone saw a speed increase.
Apologists say the system needs time to cache more pages and that the Fire uses Flash which slows it down. Neither of these seems right. Amazon's PR says part of the benefit is that you're only downloading from one server. Many tested sites don't use Flash.