Yes, that&#x27;s definitely a more precise statement of the facts as we know them today. Please allow me to expand on it:<p>Amazon has told us that this product we paid to have in our homes won&#x27;t spy on us, and has (to my knowledge) given me or anyone else ZERO indication that they&#x27;d suddenly decide: &quot;Privacy? Fuck that! Let&#x27;s see if someone is saying something salacious in that bedroom in Watertown, NY; that customer seems to be buying a lot of lube.&quot; Or, less sarcastically, violate their paying customers&#x27; expectation of privacy to suit their own ends, whatever those may be.<p>Google, however, has &quot;snuck in&quot; code to actively listen to the microphone in their browser, which we don&#x27;t pay for. I won&#x27;t use the old &quot;if you&#x27;re not the buyer, you&#x27;re the product&quot; routine here, but I will say that I trust the privacy protections of a free browser with portions of black-box, closed-source code a hell of a lot less than I trust the same protections of a paid-for product with portions of black-box, closed-source code.