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‘Has flat buttocks,’ ‘cusses when scared’: Amazon keeps shockingly specific customer profiles
www.fastcompany.com/91619118/amazon-shopping-customer-profiles-about-you-page-shockingly-specific-how-to-see-view-your-profile
Replying to @zarkanian@sh.itjust.works
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
Replying to @IamMoonPie@lemmy.world
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.