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

This. If Amazon storefront isn't keeping your card information, then you can bet your ass that someone is using their services to do just that.

In my head I've just totally separated Amazon the store and Amazon the web services provider. Dunno why, they're the same thing. So that totally slipped my mind. But yeah, they're definitely locked down supremely well, it'd be insane for anything else.

It really depends on where you live. If you live in LA like I do the amount of time it takes to do things like grocery shopping can be ridiculous because of the traffic and just population congestion in general. An average trip to the grocery store in some parts of town can take over an hour to get done. If you work all day the last thing you want to do is deal with more traffic and long lines just to get groceries. That's why there's plenty of startups and large companies that offer fresh grocery delivery here in LA and to be honest it's a godsend. I can figure out what I need in terms of meat, veggies, etc and just have it delivered whenever I want, even as fast as an hour while I just chill at home. You pay a premium sure, and you don't get to pick out your produce yourself so sometimes it might not be to your liking, but overall it's pretty great.

I remember seeing these and honestly thinking the whole idea was kind of cool, in a future-home kind of way. As someone else, said, Alexa made it defunct, though. It's just another one of those things that I think is cool, but don't wanna touch with a 10 ft. pole because, well, Amazon.

If you amazon account gets hacked, your credit card information that was saved could still be used by whoever is in the account. That's more of what I was getting at.

That's entirely your own fault then. Not really an issue with Amazon or the act of saving payment information. There are also measures in place to prevent abnormal purchases.

Right, and you have the right to dispute those charges with your bank and get them reversed. We have the tools to fight fraud.

I absolutely understand how novel and pointless this idea could seem to some, but this is actually the first time I've ever heard of it, and as @arlygoodbrownie put it, it actually seems like a really convenient, future-smart-home style system. I can see how Alexa has easily made it's (rather niche) utilization rather redundant, but I can see the appeal. Like a lot of this smart home/Alexa talk, I 100% see the appeal and would like to embrace it more, though the current set up does leave me with security concerns. It's not that I'm entirely worried about someone hijacking my account and spending all my money, more that I'm not quite sure we're ready for the fully computer-equipped smart-home future we all want yet.

Wait wait wait these were real? Why? Unless you have a button for every item in your house literally what's the point, you still have to grocery shop. I thought these were a joke.

You have to reenter your card information whenever you enter a new address, so unless they're planning on buying something and having it delivered to your house, there isn't much point.

Maybe one day you'll find a hill to die on that's actually worth it.

And maybe one day I'll actually die on that hill like you

Smart homes are going to be used as a mass surveillance tool even when they're fully fleshed out, just like "smart TVs". It's all planned.

And millions of idiots will be attracted to the shiny new thing without asking "what's the catch?" See: all home voice-activated devices by amazon/google.