(The cash bonus is usually paid on PayPal, which Amazon does not use.) Private groups like “Amazon Product Review” and the more clandestine “R**fund Aftr R**vew” bring in tens of thousands of people willing to write a few sentences and take a couple pictures in exchange for a product - and maybe $5 to $10 on top. A company making a generic product in Shenzhen or Chennai uses an intermediary to set up a Facebook group, Twitter account, or Telegram channel with a name that attracts users looking for free merch. Buying off consumers looking for free headphones, body pillows, or indoor-gardening kits, these manufacturers shoot to the front page of a given search, boosting sales and frustrating the competition dumb enough to play fair. For years, third-party sellers have been gaming the megaretailer’s all-important reviews section by sending complementary goods to real people in exchange for glowing write-ups - even if the thing sucks. If you have been looking for an easy, fast, and free backup plan, Amazon Photos is worth a look.Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer Photos: Getty Images/AmazonĪmazon has a problem: People like free stuff. I have the Flickr Pro plan (purchased after Yahoo sold them to SmugMug) and like the benefits it offers. I’m working on another post with more options for non-personal photo sharing, but Flickr and Vimeo come to mind as I have used them and really like what they offer. The terms of service prohibit anything other than personal use. If you are a business user or professional photographer, Amazon Photos is not the service for you. The future of photo storage is looking like it may mean we have to delineate friendships between Prime or Non-Prime. What is not clear is if these other people must be Prime members as well or just, well, non-Prime friends or family. The site explains that Prime members can also invite up to five friends or family members to receive unlimited photo storage, and collect photos together in the Family Vault. Again, the sharing of an individual photo worked fine. That’s a little less user-friendly, but if many of your network are Amazon users it won’t matter to you. However, when I tried to put a few photos into a “group” to share, Amazon Photos required the recipient sign in to see the photos - essentially forcing you to sign up for a free Amazon account in order to see the photo group. I shared photos via the mobile app, via text, and other standard options and it allowed non-Amazon users to simply view the photo via the link on the web without any sign-in required. Turning it off does appear to disable the ability of the app and service to categorize images by type, such as, plants, technology (wristwatch is how a few of the photos were tagged, though none were watches), food, or art, for example.Ī nice feature for a backup service, there are simple editing tools in the mobile app that let you do some of the basics like crop, use filters (change to black and white, add shadows, colors), add stickers. I left it on for this test and it didn’t immediately show me any names or group people together. Amazon Photos has a “default setting of on” for Image Recognition that you may want to turn off. Given some recent privacy issues for a variety of large social media companies as well as companies like Amazon and Google, let’s briefly talk about the last bullet in the above list. Note: This last item is done via image recognition technology. Prime members can search photos by keyword, location, and more.See your photos on your Fire TV, tablet, computer, or on the Echo Show, where available.Share photos and albums via SMS, email, other apps, or privately with Groups. Backup your photos and videos securely with Amazon.
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