Amazon wants to start paying some users in exchange for monitoring the use of their smartphones. What could go wrong?
Amazon going to start pay some of your users. In exchange, they will have to allow the American company monitor all traffic data generated through their smartphones.
This has been announced by the company itself, as part of its rewards program Amazon Shopper Dashboard available in some countries. The deal will only be offered to some users of the platform, who will be rewarded with two dollars a month.
Two dollars a month in exchange for your traffic data
As they have confirmed in Business Insider, only users invited to the Amazon rewards program will be able to join this program. who do it, they will get two dollars a month for sharing their traffic data, with the aim, according to Amazon, of check what ads they see, where they saw them and at what time of day.
Not only Amazon’s own ads are included, but also those of third parties that are displayed on the platform.
The company explains that participating in this program will help brands to offer better products and make ads more relevant. Participants may exit the program at any time, and those on the waiting list may enter to fill the gap.
Since the Amazon Shopper Panel rewards program, which allows users to earn up to $10 a month in exchange for sending your purchase receipts to Amazon, It is only available in the US and UK.Amazon users from other countries will not be able to benefit from this program.
Amazon is not the first large technology company that decides to “reward” its users in exchange for relevant information. in his day, Facebook offered up to $20 rewards to some users for collecting their data. Google did something similar with Screenwise, a chrome extension that monitored users’ movements in the browser, in exchange for $5 Amazon gift cards.
Amazon Shopper Panel is not expected to reach a larger number of countries, at least in the short term.