> From: Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
> I commonly see a lot of connections to amazonaws, and I somehow get the
> impression that they provide product images for other sites.
No. Those are paid cloud services. You can generally block them with no ill
effect, if you don’t want an application reporting anything to The Mother Ship.
(Unless, of course, it’s an application whose purpose is cloud computing, like
sharing databases among devices, etc.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Web_Services
I do my own “cloud.” I don’t need no steenkeen Shamazon holding my data.
Jan
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