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“Has No Friends”: Amazon Is Keeping Amazingly Detailed Records on Its Customers and They Are Downright Insulting: Here's how to check yours. (futurism.com)
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[–] 29 points 1 month ago (15 children)

This definitely seems to be US-based at the moment. The relevant page doesn't exist on the Australian site, but if I log into the Amazon US site, it is there (albeit blank in my case, which is interesting).

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  • [–] 15 points 1 month ago (13 children)

    It's in the UK version. On iPhone: You --> Account (along the top) --> Your Shopping preferences (under Personalization) --> About You (at the bottom).

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (8 children)

    I live in the UK and used the UK web version, it has nothing. Maybe because I have almost entirely stopped using Amazon?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (7 children)

    The UK web version definitely doesn't have any such link for me.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago* (3 children)
    1. Side bar --> You Account (see all)
    2. Scroll down to Account Settings --> Shopping Preferences

    It was pretty accurate about my interests which I saw no problem with ("prefers reliable open source ecosystems"), but took issue with it guessing the size of my family, so I updated it to say that I live in an underground bunker with 10 others in a polycule.

    I also updated my halloween decoration preferences to suggest I fight crime at night

    Can't wait to see what my next searches are like 👀

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    There's no "account settings" in the "your account" page. There's no "see all", and there's also no "shopping preferences". I assume you're being served a different page to me.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    I found it on the UK web version but I had to use the browser's search function to find it on the page.

    It had nothing, which I'm hoping because I've previously opted out of analytics?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago*

    It says that I have an 11-year old child. Unless you count household pets, there ain't no such thing.

    Also, it knows about two out of eight RAM sticks that I bought from Ebay. It mentions other AI assistants learned about me, and asked if I wanted to share. I think assistants from other websites are already sharing.

    ...ah. I used someone else's PC and account to ask Google questions about my computer build. My personal Amazon account is under the Prime account of that person.

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