• cardboardboxfort@lemmy.world
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    Jeff Bezos hosted Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell to his private, invitation-only, weekend at a resort he rented out. Bezos had many close ties to Epstein. Bezos also had numerous private dinners with Epstein.

    The photo is from a party where Ghislaine Maxwell hobnobbed with him but make no mistake they were close friends.

    Make sure to add this note to your files about Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.

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    This should shock no one and if anything the shocking thing is transparency (though that is likely a ploy as I guarantee based on these articles plenty of people will go view it to correct the record, giving Amazon a great source of refinement for ad tracking)

    Literally every major website (and basically every website that run JavaScript for that matter) tracks and profiles you. Your tv does the same, as does your phone and almost all the apps on it, etc. and the profiling they don’t show you definitely exists: race, political affiliation/leaning, income estimates, address, educational level, health issues, etc

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      Yeah mine is the same. Plan to keep it that way. I don’t know how it got that way, probably saw an article like “opt out of all these AI features” and then did all of them without even thinking.

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    Must be an American thing where no rules for corporations exist. Nothing on my swedish version.

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    I haven’t logged into my Amazon account in ten years, and this won’t make me do it.

    Learn the difference between need and want. Stop buying crap you don’t need. And, never knowingly buy anything off Amazon.

    Fuck Amazon, and Jeff Bezos. All excuses people make to willingly buy off that fucking site are bullshit.

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      It is amazing,the difference between want and need. I quit them cold turkey, thought it would be hard, but turns out, no. Not really, they had nothing I had to have. I save money, and prevent waste. And avoid supporting Amazon.

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    I was sort of unimpressed with mine. It was all variations of:

    -Likely lives in <city where I have every order shipped>

    -Likely owns <thing I buy accessories for>

    And then for some reason it thinks I own a Dodge Ram. I have four vehicles saved to my account. None of them are a Dodge Ram.

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        I found it using my phone’s browser and I can’t remember how different the mobile page and desktop page are, so YMMV, but:

        I clicked my name and a menu popped up. On that menu under “Your Account” I clicked “See all options” and it took me to a page that had “Hello” in the upper left, and beneath that a link that said “About You”, which took me to the page with that stuff.

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      I’m curious why you’d have four vehicles saved to an Amazon account? Like… For what reason?

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    Was always glad to have never been an Amazon customer, even more so now.

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    To find such information for ourselves, the link says “you can pull up the page by clicking on the “Account” link”.

    • But there is no such “Account” link when I look, only a “Your Account” link and the difference matters.

    under the Account & Lists drop down menu.

    • yes I have “Account & Lists” option.

    Scroll to the bottom of the page you land on and click a small link that says “manage your information” and there you have it."

    • no such “manage your information" for me.

    That’s why online software instructions are rarely useful, they most often mention options that are not availabel when I look for them. Possibly because things are updated too often.

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      Yeah, the instructions from the website didn’t work. I had to hover over Account & Lists, then click on Shopping Preferences, then scroll down to click on Manage Your Information under About You.

      Mine said they didn’t have any info on me, since I haven’t shopped there since 1998.

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        amazon

        i guess i should be patting myself on the back for not having used amazon long enough for it to forget who i am.

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      For me it was in the top-middle of the Account page, called “About You”