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‘Has flat buttocks,’ ‘cusses when scared’: Amazon keeps shockingly specific customer profiles
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this post was submitted on 07 Oct 2026
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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.