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Amazon Says It'll Pay You $2 Per Month to Spy on Your Phone's Internet Traffic
An Amazon spokesperson confirmed that only invited customers are eligible for the $2 reward, but declined to disclose how Amazon selected users for the program.
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Allow an overbearing tech conglomerate to see traffic coming out of your phone, and you can clinch yourself a cool $2 a month.
That kind of minuscule moneymaking deal is what Amazon is offering customers as part of its invite-only Amazon Shopper Panel, Insider reports. Select customers can use an associated app to submit photos of receipts for ten bucks, complete surveys for cash — and most invasively of all, allow the app to spy on your phone's traffic.
By doing so, Amazon wants to monitor all the ads you see and when and where you see them, including its own ads. The data it gathers will "help brands offer better products and make ads from Amazon more relevant," according to the program's website.
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