Amazon Knows You Have a Goldfish Named Ziggy, Even if You Don't - CNET
Websites have long kept personalized information about their customers, and it can be useful. Bath & Body Works might alert you to a sale on its three-wick candles, or your local theater can tell you when the musical Six comes to town.
Few shopping sites have more information about customers than Amazon — currently on day two of its October Prime Day sales — which knows your book preferences, your shoe size and even which cereals you might buy at Whole Foods. But there’s something unnerving about seeing your Amazon personal purchase history distilled into a dossier of factoids — especially when some of them are wrong.
The Amazon About You page, a list of facts the company gathered from your purchases, made the news Tuesday after a post by Threads user fangirlinmegan was picked up by TechCrunch. In the Threads post, the user points out that, in addition...
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