It's a wednesday

My lovely and talented sister susandennis was talking about Amazon's changing, or maybe decaying, customer service and kicked off a brain walkabout for me on the recent security discussions going on.  

1 — Prolific survey.  Prolific.co is a site I keep up all the time and make spare change on.  The surveys are usually by post grads collecting data to support or kill some hypothesis of theirs.  One thing the surveys have taught me is that some post grads know a lot less about hypotheses than I do and skew their questions so that they get the answers they want as if the paper is already written.  Case in point:

The question was whether I'd rather have an Amazon app (the shopping one I use all the time) with ads or a paid version without ads.  Why would one want an Amazon app without ads and how could there be one?  And, btw, there is no such thing so the example was terrible.

But to think that one could use an Amazon app from which Jeff would not extract every single piece of marketing data from the user is ludicrous.  

2 — Smart TV's collect data about the user!!!  All over the news this week.  I watch YouTubeTV all the time.  Google owns YouTubeTV.  Anything I watch is analysed by Google for marketing data.  Anyone who does not know that going in should not be on the Internet.  

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And for dinner

We have pork loin, chicken wings, mashed potatoes and salad.  AKA — stuff from the freezer so I didn't go to the store today.

Paprika/salt/pepper/garlic salt on both wings and pork loins — on the BBQ and we'll see what happens.  Always a surprise.