Amazon Kills Dash Buttons Because No One Uses Them - Sensationalist Headlines

Amazon Kills Dash Buttons Because No One Uses Them | News & Opin.. https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/134149/c439d3ee-f4b3-43b9-b8d3-d8b6e273b851/image.png Amazon has ended sales of its Dash Buttons due to declining interest. The e-commerce giant pulled the quirky one-click buttons from the company's online stores globally on Feb. 28. However, they will live on in virtual form; access a catalog of digital buttons and add new ones on the Amazon website, app, or Echo Show. Owners who enjoy the physical Dash Buttons can continue using them. The e-commerce giant will still fulfill orders placed from the devices. But Amazon's focus will be on digital one-click restocking services through company's various products, Amazon told PCMag in a statement.

Well, be honest, do you really want a button lying around that any ol' family member/visitor/pet can idly tap a few times and find multiple orders turning up?

Still the best use of these things https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LckSe8_3F8Y

rewatching this is what prompted me to check the term "dash buttons" to see this

i never understood the point. you press it, it adds one to your cart? you have to confirm it on your device anyway, so why not just do it there in the first place?

i *think* the intent is that you'd stick the buttons in a cupboard or wherever you'd store the thing on the button (let's say crackers for example), and when you went to get crackers and there were little/none left, you click button so it's added to card for your next amazon order. basically relying on the user being a frequent amazon shopper, which if you cared about the buttons, you probably were.

This is something that has bothered me with a lot of amazon products. In their commercials they use Alexa to buy shit like how can I stop someone from just ordering random shit.

Never really understood this, does anyone buy their normal, day-to-day shopping via amazon?

and for those frequent amazon shoppers, alexa has made the dash buttons completely irrelevant

People in the tech hobbyist world found a decent use for them. Intercepting their network requests and making them do literally anything but order goods. Security dork extraordinaire Scott Helme released his little tool that makes a Dash Button renew your HTTPS certificates on press. Just because he had one lying around and wondered what else they could do. https://scotthelme.co.uk/lets-encrypt-is-only-a-click-away/ Outside of the intended use, people were just about finding some use for them. Though it's mostly stuff that could probably be automated anyway.

None of you have any idea what you're talking about. I own multiple dash buttons. Pushing one places the order immediately, it doesn't "only add it to the cart". Don't let people you don't trust into your home.

Yeah I was gonna say the idubbbz video showed receipts popping up on his phone when he was pressing it, it just adding to cart didn't sound right

Amazon has their own official programmable dash buttons that they're still selling. https://aws.amazon.com/iotbutton/

these things probably ran afoul of consumer rights laws in general, there's no check to prevent kids from ordering on it and there's no way to display the price, which was one thing german courts struck against them for

Not in the UK apparently lmao. Thanks Amazon. They also cost 4 times more than the Dash buttons ever did. ~$5 vs. ~$20. The hobbyist community gravitated towards hacking Dash buttons for a reason.

Who would use them? Nothing says "financially irresponsible" than a button that actually automatically charges your card on press that you personally purchased.

This just gave me an idea. Get some big speakers and blast "ALEXA, ORDER 20 POUNDS OF LUBE" in your apartment complex to mess with your neighbors

You just described a phone though How is it financially irresponsible to automate certain purchases that you know you will need in the future and are comfortable with the price of?

Because it can be abused. Never let any device save your credit card information. The convenience comes with risks.

The device doesn't save your credit card information. Your Amazon account does. It can be abused but it's also really easy to prevent abuse. By default the buttons won't let another order be placed until the last one was delivered, and they require you have the Amazon app installed which gives you immediate notifications of all purchases and you can cancel those orders (and deactivate the button) right there. It doesn't really seem like you know much about these devices if you think they store your credit card information.

You shouldn't store it with your amazon account

Mate your Amazon account's financial information is protected at least equally as well as the credit card companies and banks that have your data as well. If Amazon gets hacked, your bank's getting hacked too friend

you can only order once then it locked the button out till the order was delivered but this is the kind of crap that generates unacceptable amounts of ewaste and should just be avoided in general.

Do you know how e-commerce sites work? Amazon shouldn't be storing your credit card information, it is almost certainly being stored proper by a third party that has been approved by whatever financial regulators a operating country uses. Amazon at best have your expiry date and last 4 digits of the card. That's nowhere near enough to be a problem. If Amazon are storing your card details themselves, they'll be entering themselves into the world of hurt that is IT financial regulations. Every single thing they do data wise would be scrutinised to fuck and back.

I'm 100% confident Amazon is fully PCI compliant regardless. They are themselves a payment processor, FYI.

It'd be a bit weird if they weren't PCI compliant tbh. Just touching any kind of credit card details usually means you're going to need it. Didn't realise they were a payment processor though! Never paid that much attention haha.

i mean, AWS hosts, what, half of the internet? They provide cloud-based HSMs, which are used to protect consumer-provided encryption keys for extremely sensitive business and personal information. They've got everything locked tighter than you can imagine.

I bought one for baby laundry soap, it was a decent price on Amazon and shipping was fast. However, we only used it once and never really needed to again.

That must be a new change. When it originally launched, it only worked off "one click buy". It didn't go into your cart but immediately was ordered. But it had a specific cooldown where it wouldn't order another until the first was delivered. My family had quite a few of them and were really handy. Doesn't sound like anyone in here actually owned them.

Maybe, I think other companies copied the idea at some point. I had Dashbuttons for Laundry supplies, dogfood, stuff where I'd get low and think "I really need to get some". I'd just hit the button and made sure I never needed to worry about needing to go out immediately for the supplies. I liked em.