Amazon being ableist, the preferred term is diminished gluteal syndrome.

~/s~

Assing while white

Average White Band Backside?

I feel attacked by this headline.

Me too. Thought it was customized for me.

I hope people dont go an modify it, by stating truth

Just checked and Amazon has this for my buttocks “Fully caked buttocks”.

Anybody know what this means?

It means you a certified snack.

It means that now whatever bot is presumably harvesting Threadiverse comments now also knows that you aren’t some mere half-caker.

It means it’s ready for eatin’.

That you need to wipe more often.

Chocolate frosted buttocks

Mine doesn’t have anything of a particularly personal nature, just obvious stuff from purchase history like:

• Likely favors Merrell brand for outdoor footwear (I have purchased the same model of Merrell shoe several times)
• Hikes frequently (a reasonable guess about someone who repeatedly buys hiking boots)
• Likely has a ThinkPad laptop (I bought trackpoint caps)
• Likely owns an Olympus camera (I bought a battery for an Olympus camera)

Yeah. Mine is really basic as well. It can be summed up as has kids, pets and a car.

The weirdest thing I see is “frequently repairs small engines”

I replaced the carb on my lawn mower last year. It’s the only part I order from Amazon because I’m lazy and wanted an prebuilt carb. I hardly call that frequent but maybe it’s a low bar.

It thinks i do all the work on my own car because I bought a Haynes manual one time 😂

You don’t even have to purchase something several times. I bought two of the same monitor once and now it thinks I have a preference for that no-name brand. It’s pretty dang dumb.

Merrell Moabs are very good, I’ve bought them 3 or 4 times already (previous model was better) and plan to continue. Very good shoes.

I hope i have one thats says ‘she called us twats’

mine says ‘is annoying’

Damn, nothing about how extensively I told them to get fucked when they put ads in Prime Video

Hilariously I apparently am big into adheasivly mounting things and also buying batteries. Nothing about my buttocks, sadly.

Oh. And I prefer Anker chargers.

I miss Anker before thy sold out and enshittified. Used to be a reliable no brainer, now it’s an always-avoid no-brainer.

Tell me more. I’ve relied on Anker as a dependable brand for years. What changed?

Like what the other people have said, they branched out too far into too many categories so they no longer maintain the quality of their fundamentals. They even recently had to recal over one million battery products and the way their customer service has handled the situation is an absolute trainwereck.

The items that I own from them are fine. I don’t really buy into all the like… Home improvement side of their business stuff. No vacuums, power you whole house power supplies, speakers, ear buds, etc. I’m probably missing a lot of the picture as far as their brand enshittification is concerned.

What they don’t tell you on this page is the rest of their inferences based on that: you’re stuck in the renting class still.

This list of “admissions” is intentionally shitty to mollify people into accepting the data broker dystopia.

Nah. I don’t need to know that when I can make my own conferences about where they got this information from.

I have a tile bathroom. Hanging stuff in there is a nightmare. I also have used those adhesive strips to mount things to the back of my TV and to my toolbox.

My brother loses/breaks chargers like it’s going out of style so I buy him on every few months.

The lack of information there is kind of weird given how old the account is. I was expecting a lot of stuff and got basically nil. Granted it’s not like I use the account much, but I’ve had it since college when you could buy used books there.

I can’t find this page on my app 😞

I wanted to know if I can stop doing hip thrusts yet

About you page

Mine says “Builds Xbox controller collection gradually.” I buy my husband a new controller about every 8 months because the sticks start to drift. Maybe it should say Xbox makes shit products.

It sounds like you’re just feeding xbox controllers to your husband

Husband starts crying in the background

Right, the “intelligence” is too dumb to know it’s a collection of broken ones.

You should modify the controller or buy a third-party one with Hall-effect or TMR joysticks.

… why do you keep buying a product that is very clearly shit?

You should look into TMR controllers, they are a lifechanger! No need to replace them.

Mine is pretty straightforward, “builds electronics” “has precision tools” “likely has a french press” (I do, I bought it on Amazon), “prioritizes high-speed data transfer”, “Probably has a computer system with internal expansion” (I bought an NVMe SSD from Amazon once), “Likely lives in (the town in my saved shipping address)”

So surveillance. Much sleuthing.

It’s a lot bigger than just this though, because they buy data broker info, which isn’t included.

I once read a piece in Harper’s Magazine, they bought these data brokers’ bullshit and looked at their own profiles, and they were very wrong on a great many things, wrongly labeling people as gay, (facebook tried showing me gay ads at one point,) and a host of other ill informed conclusions about us.

Keep in mind, the feds, and maybe states now, buy this information to use against us. We should have some rights, but we don’t.

You have a point here? What is your point, because it seems to me you are looking for an excuse to pc attack someone making a valid point.

Answer my point! Or go fund yourself.

I think it’s a joke? Homophobic, but mocking the abuse pattern in question.

It’s a joke. Source: https://youtube.com/shorts/sphI4o9hY88

I’m gonna go somewhere else now. I’m not interested in your weird unfocused aggression or your inability to enjoy a meme. In fact I’ll go ahead and block you because it’s simpler, I hope you feel better soon.

:)

The guy that frequents shitposting says what?

When I was still on FB they would serve me ads in Hebrew all the time. No idea why, I can’t read a thing in Hebrew 😂

This is probably going to be unpopular on Lemmy, The Nuanceless Platform, but IF the data collection is confined to what they show me here, I’m okay. Because I bought some solder, a pair of calipers, and some computer parts from Amazon, they think I “build electronics.” Amazon has a reason to know this about me as a customer, especially if I can see and even manually delete/change it. As humorous as it may be that they apparently think a customer has a flat ass, that’s relevant information if you buy clothing from them, they’ll steer you away from the bubble butt shorts that you’ll almost certainly return.

The problem is when they want to start installing apps on my phone, new devices in my house, with microphones and radars that are always collecting data about what I do, what I say, where I am. THAT’S the part we need to be dismembering executives over.

Mine is all electronics, gaming, and 3D printing, which absolutely checks out given my purchase history and reviews. Also something like “prefers high resolution display connectivity” because I bought some cables? WHY WOULD I PREFER LOW RESOLUTION DISPLAY CONNECTIVITY ALEXA? WHY?

Well they must have quite the file on how I lose my shit when they cheat me.

Since no one is linking the page and I had to go hunt it down myself: www.amazon.com/slc/hub?useAiMode=1

Mine doesn’t have anything interesting, probably because I avoid using Amazon if possible.

“I want your ai to Fuck off and never talk to me, please”

Success:

We use Amazon way too heavily and my page was still super boring.

Thank you, i could not figure out how the heck i’d see it

Considering that I haven't purchased anything from Amazon in almost a year (and the few things that I do purchase from there are generally game controllers anyway), Amazon barely knows a thing about me, besides of "Gravitates toward compact, low-cost functional components", "Favors multi-platform and cross-device compatible accessories", and "Plays fighting games with specialized hardware".

Mine is pretty meh. Gets a lot right, but thinks I have a dog and I prefer zigbee. I have a cat (that I’ve bought dog accessories for) and prefer Z wave, but usually buy those things elsewhere.

Most of the things it has are directly related to a single purchase that I remember. It thinks I like a certain brand of monitor because I bought two of them for secondary monitors once. They are no-name monitors and I could not care less about the brand. It’s pretty basic shit. I could probably write the algorithm for it.

“Has a cat”

Ha ha bitches, I have TWO cats! Suck it big data, you LOSE!

Mine says “Owns a cat” and “Has a dog”

Which is wrong because it’s two cats and two dogs, but also I feel they are making value judgments about the pets. Isn’t the trope that you own dogs and have cats?

Datapoint updated

buys improbable number of cats

Mine said I have twelve cats! My two cats would protest but they can’t be bothered.

Not in Japan yet, at least on my account. I only use amazon a couple of times a year for things I can’t get anywhere else, but it should have plenty of history to work with.

Same for Germany. I can imagine they restrict it to markets with weaker privacy laws for now.

“Systematically building electronics laboratory.”

That’s so much nicer than saying I’m constantly trying and failing at my hobbies as I realize how little I know and how ill prepared I am for my ambitions.

Awwws

Same here with “likely prefers specialized tools for specific tasks” rather than “hyperfocuses on a new hobby every month and convinces themselves to buy the pro tool 9000 because they will absolutely not leave it collecting dust this time”

That’s me

Yeah I was going to say. My AuDHD has my profile looking like I’m the most interesting person on earth. They don’t know that I’m just always planning to take up hobbies, and not really diving in fully on any of them. Always planning, never doing :(

I have a friend that is always trying to convince me to join the local makerspace, but they don’t understand that means I would then also have to leave my house and look like an idiot in front of strangers.

It would probably save me a lot of money, but… Now I own a desktop CNC. It’s still in the box, but I own one!

Mine is pretty boring. Honestly, I imagine Amazon has a much deeper profile for us hidden away and this is the one they wanted us to find to diffuse our suspicions of being constantly spied on… Seriously, I bet me TV knows more about me than that list.

I don’t think it’s that elaborate of a conspiracy. The “deeper” profile “hidden away” is just not in plain English. They probably had to do extra processing to produce the neat human interpretable data. I’m guessing the real purpose of this is getting the humans to look at it and correct the mistakes because a lot of people are dumb enough to do just that.

Yes it does give you the option to feed it. I would like to actively fuck with mine, just haven’t decided exactly how yet.

Amazon.de doesn’t have this, and I rarely use it anyway, but I took this as an opportunity to request all data they have on me. If you live in certain US stages (e.g. California), or successfully represent you do, you can probably do that too.

• Likely favors ZigBee smart home protocol
• Plays video games across multiple platforms
• Consistently repurchasing specialty food staples
• Likely has outdoor space

Though it definitely gets a lot of other things wrong, like the number of kids I have.

What is a “specialty food staple”?

No clue, probably something from Whole Foods?

They think I own a cat, LOL. It’s actually 3 ferrets 🦦 stupid computers

They got so much wrong it’s hilarious.

About the only thing they got right is that we have chickens and like comfy clothing, and one mention based on a five year old review. Literally everything else was junk.

“Maintains consistent snacking preferences” the most specific one “Owns rasps” If it really got me, it would call me out on what I usually use Amazon for…   Last minute project stuff.

Home and family: Has working nodes

Hell yeah, I’ll take that assumption

“Likely lives in City, State”

Birch you ship everything I’ve ever ordered to the same address. Best you can do is “likely”?

Someone in the meeting was like “Okay, but what if the purchaser is a sugar daddy? Or they are buying goods to a blind shipper to evade export bans?”
And that’s likely how “Technically correct, but kind of annoying Terry” got his hyper-specific nickname.

“But the billing address of the Amazon credit card matches the shipping address!”

“Well, they could be a sugar daddy to their live-in mistress.”

“Shut up, TCBKoA Terry.”

Honestly I am not surprised at all that they have this. I’m more surprised that this information became public, but with AI I suppose it was inevitable.

They probably should have made customer-facing descriptions more-flattering.

You know, I’m actually kindof proud that Amazon figured this out about me…

About you We haven’t saved anything yet.

Phew.

yet

I think Amazon just called you basic

Why is it talking like yoda

Same with added note, no history for three months.

Seems to only work on Amazon.com. My .ca info isnt shared. It says the following though:

“Make Amazon even more personal to you

Your other AI assistants have learned about you. Bring that knowledge here for an even more personalized experience.”

I think I’ll go chuck my computer and iot devices into a dumpster now.

Lmao they think I have kids.

…actually now that I think about it for 5 seconds I think they just love defrauding advertisers.

• man about to get a letter from the AG about child support

Every so often I “fake a pregnancy” and disable my ad blocker for this very reason. I love damaging their conversion rates.

Not terribly insightful-

Mine said “has 2 adults” and I was trying to figure out why because I’m very much by myself, and I realized it is because my mother sends things to my address with her amazon account sometimes. So it thinks she lives here.

I love how it categorizes my full time professional job, which I did a degree in and everything, as a “hobby.”

They said I upgraded my computer hardware in the past year which is funny because I mean have you seen the prices?

It’s probably pulling from me buying a keeb as a gift but I wouldn’t consider peripherals as part of computer hardware lol. Technically but also not really

Not only did they have my age range completely inaccurate they’ve also listed camping as a hobby. I don’t even own a tent, I have no idea why they think I like camping. I’ve never bought any camping equipment from them, I’ve never accessed the website from communal wi-fi and campsite. I don’t know where they’re getting this assumption from.

Have you ever researched or looked at knives or multi-tools?

Oh maybe, I’m not particularly interested in things like that but my dad is pretty into Swiss army knives so maybe he used my Amazon account at one point?

I mean it’s fine I don’t care I just think it’s odd.

What’s the cheapest way to gaslight these data points?

Let’s say one has $10 to spare, what would you buy to ruin their model?

I wouldn’t give Amazon a fucking dime

Agreed. It’s a conversation topic, I fully agree.

I bought fake moss for an art project I was doing and it thinks I’m super into moss home decor.

An email claiming you moved to the EU and went them to remove all your data.

I heard advertisers consider young parents the most profitable demographic, so anything childcare related is weighted very heavily in their models. I don’t have a source though

Giving them money to spite them is an interesting gambit. If you want to fuck with them in petty ways you’re far better off just buying and returning bulky items until they cut you off.

Bribe one of the employees managing the database to enter random shit on your account.

Funny that it knows this, yet chooses to ignore it.

Why are so many of you still shopping with Amazon? Genuinely I do not understand it.

Because Amazon wiped out what Walmart and other big box stores didn’t kill in the first round. Sometimes there’s literally no place else to get what I need, not even order it in to a local store. On top of that, Google search for products is so wrecked that the choices it returns are amazon links, or links to websites that also provide amazon links to the same products. It’s fucked up.

(FWIW I do buy local or direct from businesses other than Amazon when possible, but it’s simply not possible all the time)

So what you’re saying is, you shop on Amazon because it’s easy… yeahhh that’s not a good enough excuse.

Sure bud. I’m not here to drive 9 hours and two states over to pick up something I need, if that’s even an option, just to satisfy whatever BS arbitrary metric you have in your head.

Or… and here me out here, maybe just do a little more research and purchase online from companies that AREN’T Amazon.

I get we all want shopping to be easier, but that’s no excuse to fund the facist machine that is Amazon.

I’m going to hold your hand when I say this because I know this will be hard to hear, but it’s not just about you and your “convenience” buddy.

I’m disabled and can’t drive anywhere, and I somehow manage to figure it out. Sometimes it takes a while, but I can do it.

What could you possibly be shopping for that’s only on Amazon? And if said company is only on Amazon— why would you want to support them anyway?

All I’m saying is, if an idiot like me can do it, so can you.

I feel llke you really need to watch the show, The Good Place. After you finish it, come back to your comments and you’ll understand why I said this.

I’ve seen the Good Place, but I’m not sure what you’re referencing sorry.

The point I’m making that you are making it seem llke it’s a lot easier than it is to do the right thing. Not everyone has the time, money, and mental energy that you have to seek out more wholesome alternatives. Sometimes you just need something, and you need it now with minimal friction.

You are very lucky and privileged that you have the time and patience to put up with the hassle of doing business with a small company. There are way too many scammers and unreliable merchants out there and it’s a game of Whack-A-Mole separating the legit small businesses from the bullshitters. I don’t know about you, but I don’t have to patience to wait up to a year for something that may or may not arrive. Some people like my girlfriend do. I don’t.

I get where you’re coming from and try my best not to fund the fascist machine, but I’m only human, and sometimes I just want to take the easy route and order something off of Amazon. And there’s nothing wrong with that, because I know my heart is in the right place.

Nope on every account. But hey, enjoy your cheap ass Nazi playes from Amazon I guess.

I’m absolutely privileged, but that has nothing to do with my ability to shop any other place than Amazon.

But hey, if you need to keep lying to yourself have it.

I’m absolutely privileged, but that has nothing to do with my ability to shop any other place than Amazon.

Says the person with a stunted ability to introspect on how their material conditions define the way they are able to interact with the world

Well good for you. I’m glad you’re privileged. You can afford to get scammed every once in awhile by a small business. When that happens to me, I can’t eat until my next paycheck (and it has happened before). So I go with the cheapest, more reliable option, because that’s what I can afford.

nah fuck that, the episode you’re talking about is where they lost me.

“There’s no ethical consumption under capitalism… therefore we’re going to rewrite the rules of the cosmos to give you a pass for it, and now you’re not obliged to fight it any more. You can go back to being happy little consumers now, all your guilt is absolved. Fremulon. NBCUniversal, a Comcast company.”

I’m not talking about a specific episode—I’m way too ADHD for that—rather the message of the show in general. So knock it off with the strawman argument.

Reread my reply to the other person, and you’ll understand the point I’m trying to make. Capitalism makes it impossible to be a perfect person, so until the system changes, do the best you can in the meantime.

I’m not talking about a specific episode—I’m way too ADHD for that—rather the message of the show in general. So knock it off with the strawman argument.

Reread my reply to the other person, and you’ll understand the point I’m trying to make. Capitalism makes it impossible to be a perfect person, so until the system changes, do the best you can in the meantime.

maybe just do a little more research and purchase online from companies that AREN’T Amazon.

I have done this, ordered from the company’s website, and still got the stuff shipped from an Amazon warehouse. I think the most recent one was an Otterbox phone case. It’s been a while because I don’t order much stuff shipped to me unless I can’t find what I need locally.

This has also been my experience. If i order something off eBay, there’s a decent chance it’s going to arrive in an Amazon box, delivered by an Amazon driver. I just had this happen the other day, decided to try an eBay seller and avoid Amazon. Sure enough it ended up being a shipment directly from Amazon through the eBay sellers account.

Ugh! So frustrating! Even when we want to enact change, the galactic monster has its tentacles in everything.

Easy to speak from a high horse when you live in a place where there are better alternatives to Amazon. I live in Europe and either I go to the alternative but doesn’t deliver to Ireland, or the site has very limited selection.

I live in Finland and have managed to always find an alternative. Ireland gets way more shipping options than Finland. You’re literally just not searching hard enough.

1. don’t use Google. It always only tries to give regional search options. Use Startpage and change the region.

2. search in a different country’s language. If searching in Poland for example, search in Polish.

And heck, if you somehow still can’t find what you need from those stores, just look at China - EU shops. Most of Amazon’s shit is from China anyway, so might as well avoid the middleman.

1. I don’t use Google.

2. I went to a Polish site and they don’t deliver to Ireland.

You’re literally just not searching hard enough.

That’s fair but now you see why there isn’t a European Amazon? Amazon makes things convenient. They operate on a single language and have good localised pages for many parts of the world. I could have my Firefox browser translate but it’s still done awkwardly. Europe doesn’t offer an alternate Amazon because of multiple languages and different structures because each countries do their own. The closest rival is Wildberries but there is sanction on Russia.

Sorry to be flippant, but again, people who speak on high horse about completely avoiding Amazon speak from their own experience and incorrectly think it’s universal. If it’s that easy to boycott Amazon, it would have already gone bankrupt.

1. Then why mention Google search in your previous comment?
2. There’s more countries than Poland. That’s just an example. You could try Spain - they have a big market too, for example.

Or you could do option three I mentioned and you ignored - buying straight from China if out of options. It’s likely the thing you wanted was made there anyway if you can’t find a European courier service to ship it to you.

We both know why Amazon is successful. But unless you or I get a couple million euros minimum, we can’t do much about setting up a competitor to Amazon (Also they operate on multiple languages too btw, there’s Amazon.de in German or Amazon.es in Spanish).

Firefox browser at least translates well enough. If it didn’t exist, you’d have a much better reason, but it does.

It’s not that hard to boycott Amazon, but people from 1st world countries have gotten extremely lazy for very particular things. This is one of them. Buying something already takes more effort than not buying something - units you’re someone born with a silver spoon in your mouth I suppose. People in these countries have a more “throw it away” attitude than a “needs to keep working a long time” one. It’s cultural.

Does it take more time to give something without Amazon? Yes. Does it take a lot more time though? Not really. In the end, it really comes down to just not caring enough about fascism/climate/corruption. Because realistically, by choosing Amazon, you’ve already decided that those things matter less than whatever doodad you’re buying, and outside of something that’s from the base layer of the hierarchy of needs, like medicine or food, you don’t have a good reason.

I’ve grown up poor. I’ve gone through times of poverty so extreme I went without food for nearly a week, and other times would walk miles to forage for food in a forest. While in university. The ones in high horses are the ones privileged enough to think needing to buy something from Amazon is a realistic issue.

I never said Google, not sure what you’re trying to read. I use Duckduckgo but I admit it’s getting terrible over the years and I might start using Startpage because I think it’s slightly better.

The Amazon pages have bettee localisation and better translation to many languages, unlike Firefox translation which I still find clumsy.

Does it take more time to give something without Amazon? Yes. Does it take a lot more time though? Not really. In the end, it really comes down to just not caring enough about fascism/climate/corruption.

That’s a fair enough argument.

I never said Google

My mistake, I thought you were the other commentator

I’d rather someone occasionally shop at Amazon than be a self righteous muppet.

So what you’re saying is you never learned how to read.

I try to avoid as much as possible (I will literally spend hours looking for alternative stores instead of buying with one click on Amazon) but sometimes there’s literally no other place to get something from. I order something once every couple of years.

i notice certain products isnt sold instore, and only on amazon, not even costco has it.

we dont have that many instores that offer the same value, plus alot of brands sell on amaozn exclusively. plus the only big box stores arnt charging alot more per item/per count.

Why do you think people buy from a monopoly?

I don’t have a book store or appliance repair shop in my town.

Not having a local book store sucks. I’m sorry to hear that.

Because it’s almost always superior, if you need things from more than one “niche”. Specialty shops only make sense if you have a big order in that niche, like building a new PC. If you want a hard drive, some TCG card sleeves, some zero cal food products, and wanna top up on boxer shorts, Amazon is just too far ahead.

I have tried other “everything” retailers in Europe, like Otto, but their selection for everything is tiny. Ironically, it’s not tiny well selected, well known european brands. It’s still filled with Chinese shovel ware.

Superior soap so I buy Auschwitz soaps /s

You are so lost.

I only buy things from Amazon I can’t get anywhere else, like the deodorant I use. Unfortunately they’ve become a monopoly in many respects

Mine has nearly everything other than brand preferences wrong, since I buy both my stuff and other people’s stuff plus gifts through the same account.

I don’t have Amazon

does anybody have the link to the about you page? I want to send it to friends

found the link www.amazon.com/slc/hub?useAiMode=1

is it .com only?

I tried replacing the TLD with a different one and it seemed to work, although the page was mostly empty. It’s the Amazon store for an EU country though, so maybe data privacy laws make it less effective. And I guess I don’t use it that much anyway.

What a judgemental slop.

ALTFavors wired over wireless audio. Browses audio and devices department. Repeatedly replaces budget earbuds rather than upgrading. Strongly prefers budget-tier audio products

Also holy shit it’s so wrong on rest.

Amabot: “Cheap-ass peasant.” 😆

It days “repeatedly replaces”, so are you buying poor quality ones?

IEM enthusiast maybe? If so, then I’ve also ordered my fair share of Chi-fi earbuds for myself, friends, and family 😄

It’s so confused about me because my whole household uses one Amazon account.

Seems like this is just an American thing. I have a German and an American account and couldn’t find the “About You” page on the German one. Man, I love GDPR

I wouldn’t celebrate prematurely. It could very well mean that both German and American Amazon profile you, but American is just more transparent about it because Americans aren’t as spooked by surveillance as Germans are.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

There is a current proposal by the Irish presidency of the EU commission that would allow a GDPR exception for anything relating to AI.

Hope it dies in parliament. But never forget that the rights that do exist in the EU are constantly under attack by lobby interests.

A national fucking disgrace. But everything we do on tat level is. Think of the children so you can read my texts but dont when you sell them out.

I don't think is that. They have the data about you and me too, it's just not shown like that (yet, at least).

Making those assumptions based on what you've bought from them is perfectly legal under the gdpr. Maybe you have to check a personalized ads option, or leave it marked, but I think that as long as you tell them in your privacy policy when they agree with it that your using their data for it you're good.

Nothing like “falsely reports products as stolen to get a refund while keeping them.” Phew! I mean… damn porch pirates!

I had to check, it talks about what pets I have. And incorrectly states my preferred brand for reptile supplement and habitat equipment. I somewhat expected more. But I guess I really only use Amazon to order aquarium lighting.

The cold weather ebiking stuff is funny and unique, it would be a “no shit” if it realized I live in Minnesota, but because this account predates my move Amazon just doesn’t have a “lives in place” listing for me.

So it’s definitely pulling from Whole Foods sales info too, I noticed their self checkout recognizing me when I used the same credit card they have on file. There’s a Whole Foods across the street from the vape shop I used to go to and they were the only place anywhere nearby that carried a local brewery NA beer that I like, and those purchases have to be the source of the “non-alcoholic specialty food” thing.

I am proud of my Beyblade collection, lol.

I wanna see your beyblade collection

ALTAww. Nothing fun

That’s boring

You guys have Slavery – The Company accounts?

This!!!

Fully erase and delete that shit immediatly!

They pegged me as someone who reads cheap ebooks, only reads Dungeon Crawler Carl, pretty much buys only D&D battle mat books, and shops from womens departments. I’m a married male, but that last one had me laughing. I have bought things for my wife in the past.

is this an american thing?

the path to get to “shopping preferences” is different for me than the article says, and then it just has three sections with no contents. clothing & shoes, interests, pets — none have any info in them

Same on Amazon.fr. Looks like it’s US-only for now.

Am I incorrect or is it down to the fact that the EU has better online privacy laws?

Possibly. Could also be Amazon doing a localized test before a global rollout.

I was expecting to be horrified but mine actually made me feel pretty good lol

I prefer Anker USB devices, I grow plants as a hobby, and I consistently maintain dog supplies!

The only thing it got wrong is it thinks I have kids. But I guess I only really use amazon to get stuff for my dog and my sister’s kids so that’s no surprise

has a cat, drinks coffee, plays guitar.

This is WAY off, I play bass.

But bass is the best kind of guitar!

All that spying and they can’t even get that right, fucking useless.

Shocking!

“play”

You are correct. It is the only true work.

I’m a drummer. We’re walking contradictions. Our specialty is precision timing, but none of us have ever arrived to rehearsal on time.

Mine thinks I keep impulsively buying stuff to maintain an organized workshop because I manage to keep an organized workshop, when the reality is it’s full of half-finished organization projects cluttering up the whole space.

“Master Craftsman”

Sorta thought this thread would be full of people saying “I dont even have an Amazon account”. Makes me sad.

amazon is backbone service of the internet dude.

they let you on AWS servers even if you’re not signed into Prime lmao

For now…

Yeah, so what’s your point dude?

Is there a way to see what companies use AWS?

No. Only way to not use AWS is to not use the internet at all.

It’s like saying how to use the internet without Akami or Cloudflare… you aren’t in 2026.

It is not quite that extreme as they only have 30% of the global market. Your sentiment is correct though.

Are we using it right now by communicating on lemmy?

Honestly I wish I didn’t. I don’t have a google account. Don’t have any Meta accounts. Don’t have accounts for basically anything I’m not functionally REQUIRED to have (banking for example). But Amazon is hard to avoid. I do a lot of buying in person, but in person shopping is just horrible these days. You need to find something specific and you are screwed. I do try to find other places online to get something when I can but a lot of times I just have to fall back to amazon. Maybe part of it is just the area I’m in though. Tons of the more specialty stores here have closed down. We don’t even have an electronics store anymore after Best Buy closed.

I’ve had the privilege to live in economically robust (relatively speaking lol) environments, which has helped a lot in my mission to avoid them. I’ve been able to do it but I’ve also been lucky. Keep the fire alive, keep searching for alternatives. But damn do I feel for your situation, not even having a basic electronics type store is pretty rough.

Well there’s a walmart that has electronics stuff but at that point you may as well just buy from Amazon anyway lmao

Yeahhh they’re nearly on the same level. Treatment of workers is roughly on par, I just haven’t heard of a Walton-Epstein connection (yet). But yeah fuck the Waltons lol

There is always Newegg or B&H.

I’ve used Newegg but never heard of B&H what is that? Newegg is good for PC parts but not really for other things. Like RV electronics for example. Altho you can find some of that on other sites too. I do try to diversify when I can and not support the monopoly. One of the main issues I’ve found is just shipping. Even if you can find something somewhere else sometimes it’ll take a month to get there, or it’s out of stock, or something like that. Especially more recently. I even had something happen one time where I tried to buy from LattePanda on their site and my bank BLOCKED the transaction and wouldn’t let me buy from them directly because they were an “untrusted” vendor lol. But I was allowed to buy the exact same thing 2nd hand from Amazon.

You can order all those things online not from amazon, even if you wanna use amazon to find them you can just go to the merchants website and order from them. I quit amazon prime like five years ago, i get not having local options but just order online from the actual retailer.

I have one collecting dust. I could delete it but it never gets used and they’ll profile me anyway. Last purchase was in February 2020. I’ve always hated amazon because of where I grew up and other reasons, but seeing how warehouse workers were treated during the pandemic was the tipping point for me. Convenience is like a drug, and going cold turkey was pretty fucking hard honestly. But it’s become easier over time. I will never give another red fucking cent to Borzo.

I don’t got one but in the off chance I can only find it on amazon, I use another person’s account

I completely degoogled and the one I had had was tied to that google account. Deamazoned as a consequence.

I’ve never felt any need to have an Amazon account, there you go. Never bought anything for them or even found anything that I wanted to buy from them.

It helps that they were so late to market in NZ that they still aren’t really that commonly used here. There’s better local alternatives which cost less

I do use AWS for work though (but we’re gradually shifting off them, there’s way cheaper alternatives these days)

I had it from a few years ago since i quit prime and my about me says they don’t have info on me so that’s good for me

Hahahaha… now I’m kind of sad I deleted my account after Amazon kept trying to scam me by offering me free Amazon prime. They would give me a month free, then like 10 days, then only like 3 days, hoping I would forget and have to be charged for it. When they finally caught me out, I just told them to fuck off and deleted my account. Never liked their other predatory practices, like how they would plagiarise and sell existing products for dirt cheap and label them Amazon Basics… And then when companies would go out of business. They would bring up the prices. I guess you don’t get that wealthy without stepping on a lot of people.

I never deleted my account so I checked and the most it knew about me was like, playes pc games extensively and thats probably bc i purchased some pc components a long time back. Also said i make bread at home regularly. Jokes on you amazon that bread machine i bought that i always think about using more has sat unused for 2 months

I can’t get enough Boris detritus

I also enjoy what happened to the Tories

If someone wants to generate a database of Lemmy users preference, this comment section is a much cheaper way than setting up an entire company like Amazon.

You mean Jeff Bezos became a billionair for nothing? That guy must really feel like a loser now.

I’ve gone through and deleted everything as a matter of principle.

The one that got me was “probably has a husband who doesn’t like lotion”

I always figured Amazon knew the most about me because what you buy probably says more about you than what you search. Like Google may think I’m a raving lunatic but Amazon knows I am a householder and what I use. So I was honestly pretty relieved most of it was very general except that oddball example above.

Everyone getting mad that they made a profile about you, but nobody acknowledging that you can edit the info and make them believe crazy things about you.

this is the way. there is claude skill designed for that kind of shenanigans.

As a normal person, huh?

dunno

Can I speak to the claude directly?

define “directly”?

Is this “Claude” in the room with us right now?

You could also, like… type.

Shortly after the Amazon suggestions:

“orders a bizarre amount of soap”

I hope everyone has added this to their file about Jeff Bezos

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos had Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell attend his private, invitation-only, weekend at a resort he rented out. Bezos also has numerous private dinners with Epstein. They were good friends.

Ah good. He was in goods with the secret police that’s two thousand or so years old that’s described in the New Testament at an eighth grade reading level, that is a good thing, and I am glad. For additional clarification, I want to make sure that you have understood that I have called out the farce of the police state that is using my still-living and very real bud Jeff’s reputation as a scaffold for thems child hooker things and trafficking and the like, but y’know, we all know how engrossed you are in that nine-figure industry as you are, cardboardboxfort. We see your search history over here in Quantico, or wherever tf you think I am.

This post smells like toast

Do you smell popcorn?

The Epstein class is literally the government right now

Heh. Just logged in to my Amazon account (which I seldom use) and it’s got nothing on me… which is JUST how I like it! Guess ticking all the privacy and security settings and using ad-blockers and a super edited hosts file (Dan Pollock’s - for decades now…) and using throwaway email accounts for all of this shit is working!

Niiiice.

I haven’t even got that page on the UK site. Looking at things they recommend I buy, I see the usual collection of things I bought once years ago, and completely random shit that I’d never be interested in in a million years. All that data collected, for what? How these people are worth trillions I’ll never know.

Mine was empty, i am kinda glad about it, it means they did not have enough info about me, not even by brokers Btw, i added

I just checked mine. It says “probably has a dog”, “probably has workshop”, “probably has outdoor space”, prefers organic, and I have 6 hobbies. Gardening, backpacking, mountaineering, swimming, professional jewelry making and painting lol. I’m adhd. I’m not a mountaineer I just had to buy ice axes and microspikes last minute for a backpacking trip because the snow didn’t melt before our permit date. I mean we did scale mountains in the snow so I guess im a mountaineer now. I try to buy as little as possible from Amazon.

Okay?

Mine seemed to have pulled knowledge based on things I’ve mentioned in reviews. Otherwise it just seems to be pretty mundane for things like order history…yep, someone with a dog profile picture and who occasionally orders dog products may in fact, have a dog. The thing it gets tripped up on is things ordered for my kids or relatives from my account (but aren’t necessarily gifts or shipped elsewhere)

How do you get to this page

Go to account>account settings>about you

It’s www.amazon.com/slc/hub?useAiMode=1

I was just looking at mine today. Systematically?

Haha, this thread has turned into an excuse to share ones hobbies and interests eh? I won’t be tempted!

Fuck off, you buy one marital aid and you get this shit