What does Amazon know about you? The answer is buried in your account info
I’m boring, according to Amazon's profile of my shopping habits. Credit: josemiguels We all know companies profile us. But understanding that abstractly is one thing.
- ▪I’m boring, according to Amazon's profile of my shopping habits.
- ▪Credit: josemiguels We all know companies profile us.
- ▪But understanding that abstractly is one thing.
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| Original publisher | PCWorld |
| Canonical URL | https://www.pcworld.com/article/3255207/what-does-amazon-know-about-you-the-answer-is-buried-in-your-account-info.html |
| Publication time | Wed, 07 Oct 2026 20:35:05 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-10-07T20:53:59.990Z |
| Last seen | 2026-10-07T20:54:09.650Z |
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| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
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| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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I’m boring, according to Amazon's profile of my shopping habits. Credit: josemiguels We all know companies profile us. But understanding that abstractly is one thing. Reading the words “has flat buttocks” in your Amazon account is very much another. If you’re not on Threads, this discovery is one of the latest viral posts. A woman stumbled upon this assumption while in her Amazon settings, buried among other, less inflammatory ones within the Your Shopping preferences section. Of course, having read that post myself while doomscrolling before bed, I resolved to look at my own profile in the morning. (I have a vested interested in privacy as a topic, after all.) Turns out, Amazon has little incendiary commentary about me. You might even say I’m boring. Here’s how you look it up.
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