> I know that mindset doesn't match many of the people here on HN

Right, the people here on HN only support spying when they are the ones doing it to users for "ad targeting" purposes.

I wonder what percentage of YC ventures have their revenue model based on advertising prospects.

if your point is that your parent commenter is sucking up, it misses the mark. there's no particular reason to say nice things about PG - other than that somebody feels that way.

Could also be replaced with "Ask <anyone mildly successful in the industry>" and applied to real life events populated by the same crowd.

Don't disrupt my ego, bro.

Not really, you just have to trust that they won't make Amazon do the things you don't want Amazon to do. You don't need to have "full trust" in anybody, really. You just have to have enough trust regarding what you're concerned about. Trusting that a government will spend its education money on education, for example, has no bearing on whether or not they'd force Amazon to record you 24/7.

It still amazes me that people actually pay money for the opportunity to have one of these things listening to what goes on in their home 24/7.

"Amazon, Google race to get your DNA into their databases"

Slashdot still exists?

"We're horrible at our job, but if you give us a few billion more dollars and let us force people to remove their underwear at checkpoints, we promise to do better!"