Amazon's Silk: SaaS Is Closing the Net

jfruhlinger writes "Much of the initial reaction to Amazon's Silk browser was interest in how it uses the cloud to speed up browsing. But at what cost? There are privacy concerns, of course, as Amazon will have a record of your browsing; but in a larger philosophical sense, Silk is of a piece with Facebook and Apple's iOS walled garden, an intermediary between you and the Internet."

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Re:"I know it can be avoided, but [PANIC PANIC]"

[arielCo]

Holy selective reading, Batman!

Quoth TFA in its fifth sentence:

Before I get accused panicking, let me emphasize that I am fully aware that Silk will let you opt out of this feature, and use the browser without EC2 participation.