Where's the sanctimonious outrage at Skype, which is almost entirely p2p?
Tile?
BitTorrent?
ipfs?
i2p?
Bitcoin?
freenet? (LOL, jk)
Or that software/firmware updates are automatic. Oooh! Also that Alexa is recording all the time without your permission. Insert moral panic here. In addition, 99% of IoT "smart" devices will cease operating whenever the company decides to turn off their servers. Where's the outrage and bikeshedding?
You invited Big Brother into your house, and now you're worried about the tiny bit of power and/or bandwidth to help other people find where the dropped their keys?
Do you think that the neighbors' smart light switches are going to go under their wallplates at night and Torrent porn on your precious idle internet connection without paying you 5 cents?
Gimme a break. Opt-out if you really don't want to also benefit from a globally-distributed 900 MHz LR BLE community mesh network.
Skype isn't using your bandwidth for other people's calls.
With Tile, they make it pretty clear that you're joining a network of Bluetooth devices.
As to why you're mentioning P2P protocols like BitTorrent, um... what exactly are you smoking? This has nothing to do with the retroactive opt-out sharing of bandwidth that Amazon is doing.
People don't like it when they buy something and then it suddenly starts exhibiting unadvertised behavior that can only be disabled behind dark patterns. The outrage doesn't exist for those other things because the intention of those things is to share bandwidth.
> Skype isn't using your bandwidth for other people's calls.
Skype used your bandwith for other people's calls for years and years. Look up the old settings on blocking your device from becoming a "supernode". Back in the day as university IT people, we had to set a registry key on all of our windows machines, or they would become the relay server for dozens of international Skype calls.
That feature is no longer part of Skype, but it very much was a thing.
