• WindyRebel@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    They pegged me as someone who reads cheap ebooks, only reads Dungeon Crawler Carl, pretty much buys only D&D battle mat books, and shops from womens departments. I’m a married male, but that last one had me laughing. I have bought things for my wife in the past.

    • XiJinpingStanAccount@lemmy.ml
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      9 days ago

      Mine said “has 2 adults” and I was trying to figure out why because I’m very much by myself, and I realized it is because my mother sends things to my address with her amazon account sometimes. So it thinks she lives here.

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    9 days ago

    Seems like this is just an American thing. I have a German and an American account and couldn’t find the “About You” page on the German one. Man, I love GDPR

    • VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      9 days ago

      There is a current proposal by the Irish presidency of the EU commission that would allow a GDPR exception for anything relating to AI.

      Hope it dies in parliament. But never forget that the rights that do exist in the EU are constantly under attack by lobby interests.

      • Squizzy@lemmy.world
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        9 days ago

        A national fucking disgrace. But everything we do on tat level is. Think of the children so you can read my texts but dont when you sell them out.

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      I don’t think is that. They have the data about you and me too, it’s just not shown like that (yet, at least).

      Making those assumptions based on what you’ve bought from them is perfectly legal under the gdpr. Maybe you have to check a personalized ads option, or leave it marked, but I think that as long as you tell them in your privacy policy when they agree with it that your using their data for it you’re good.

    • late_pessimistic@slrpnk.net
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      9 days ago

      I wouldn’t celebrate prematurely. It could very well mean that both German and American Amazon profile you, but American is just more transparent about it because Americans aren’t as spooked by surveillance as Germans are.

      Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

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    9 days ago

    Mine has nearly everything other than brand preferences wrong, since I buy both my stuff and other people’s stuff plus gifts through the same account.

  • Baguette@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    10 days ago

    They said I upgraded my computer hardware in the past year which is funny because I mean have you seen the prices?

    It’s probably pulling from me buying a keeb as a gift but I wouldn’t consider peripherals as part of computer hardware lol. Technically but also not really

  • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    Not only did they have my age range completely inaccurate they’ve also listed camping as a hobby. I don’t even own a tent, I have no idea why they think I like camping. I’ve never bought any camping equipment from them, I’ve never accessed the website from communal wi-fi in a campsite. I don’t know where they’re getting this assumption from.

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        9 days ago

        Oh maybe, I’m not particularly interested in things like that but my dad is pretty into Swiss army knives so maybe he used my Amazon account at one point?

        I mean it’s fine I don’t care I just think it’s odd.