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.
I was hoping to find some saucy info on myself, but instead I got things like “prefers premium coffee brands with consistent flavor profiles” and “likely has a workshop”
Mine was pretty bland too. “Has 1 cat” and “reads fantasy”. I wanted to get insulted.
I’m sure the devs did a quick search for sexual keywords to clean it up after the news came out
That’s a disservice to all of us 😆
Dude, there are so many places online you can get free insults from, I mean you are already here so why not post about the Ukraine war on lemmy.ml or mistake Star Trek for Star Wars or something.
mistake Star Trek for Star Wars or something.
One’s got space magicians and the others got space wizards
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This is funny.
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As an avid fan of both, I’m not sure which is supposed to be which. Star Trek has all the pazzaz of a magician, psuedo science and technobable explainations. But it also has characters who are literally magical. Meanwhile, Star Wars has old people in secret societies performing rituals in robes - all very wizardly. However, in universe, their “magic” is very well understood, continuously studied, is testable, and even reproducable. They use their well established abilities to trick people, and that’s very magician.
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Maybe I’m just too honest with Alexa…
I think my favorite was “Systematically building electronics component inventory”, but pretty much the same, mostly just my brand preferences and the stuff I tend to buy.
I’m also really deliberate in how I shop Amazon though: sift through my options in a private window and once I narrow down to what I want, copy the link, remove the tracking garbage, open it in my regular window, add it to my cart, rinse and repeat. It’s probably a paper shield at best, but good to know it helps curb the “[spends an inordinate amount of time comparing items, two thirds of which are also available on Ali Express]” inference.
Systematically building electronics component inventory
Possible goal: self-hosting, possibly webshop. Possible future competition.
Concussion: nip in the bud.
Action: sending black ops team…
concussion indeed
Dammit. My AI needs work.
People discovering their apps watch them.
Amazon is definitely going to plug that hole.
It’s not a hole they see it as a service. You can even give feedback on their notes about you.
My first item “uses Linux”… But does it know I use arch btw?
How did they ever get this groundbreaking information?!
Mine just says I like analog and vintage photography stuff and lacy and shiny clothes. Neither of which are very shocking.
The “manage your information” section doesn’t exist where I’m at.
(Yes, I did a text search)
Instead, we have “request your data” which likely would give you complete files of all data they have on you. I’m not going to crawl through that right now.
You guys didn’t turn off ad personalization?
After shopping a lot from them for 22 years now, what a letdown:
About you
We haven’t saved anything yet. As you shop on Amazon or chat with Alexa, we’ll save helpful information to personalize your experience.
Once we have saved some details, you can manage them here.
You guys didn’t delete that crap yet?
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.
Where did you find it?
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.
ha! mine ain’t got shit!
Amazon has spent years turning customer surveillance into a business model, and now we discover it apparently keeps detailed records while insulting the very people funding its empire. Nothing says customer obsession quite like treating customers as data mines and punchlines. Bezos built a trillion dollar machine that knows your shopping habits but apparently never learned basic respect.
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).
It’s in the UK version. On iPhone: You --> Account (along the top) --> Your Shopping preferences (under Personalization) --> About You (at the bottom).
I live in the UK and used the UK web version, it has nothing. Maybe because I have almost entirely stopped using Amazon?
The UK web version definitely doesn’t have any such link for me.
- Side bar --> You Account (see all)
- 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 👀
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.
that one worked thanks :)
Where is this fucking page? I want to know where!
You could try reading the article.
It’s literally not in the article bro.
It’s in the part that says “If you’re curious what kind of haphazard observations Amazon is keeping on you, you can pull up the page by clicking on the “Account” link under the Account & Lists drop down menu. 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. On mobile, you click on the profile account icon on the bottom bar, hit “Account,” then “Shopping preferences,” and then “About you.”'”
