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‘Has flat buttocks,’ ‘cusses when scared’: Amazon keeps shockingly specific customer profiles
(www.fastcompany.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Sorta thought this thread would be full of people saying "I dont even have an Amazon account". Makes me sad.
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 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
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 completely degoogled and the one I had had was tied to that google account. Deamazoned as a consequence.
I don't got one but in the off chance I can only find it on amazon, I use another person's account
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...
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.
Are we using it right now by communicating on lemmy?
It is not quite that extreme as they only have 30% of the global market. Your sentiment is correct though.
Yeah, so what's your point dude?