{"id":39281,"date":"2026-10-08T00:36:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T22:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/08\/what-does-amazon-know-about-you-the-answer-is-buried-in-your-account-info\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T00:36:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T22:36:30","slug":"what-does-amazon-know-about-you-the-answer-is-buried-in-your-account-info","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/08\/what-does-amazon-know-about-you-the-answer-is-buried-in-your-account-info\/","title":{"rendered":"What does Amazon know about you? The answer is buried in your account info"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. This doesn&#8217;t affect our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/about\/affiliate-link-policy\" target=\"_blank\">editorial independence<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> \t\t \t\t \t \t \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t \t\t\t \t\t\t\tI\u2019m boring, according to Amazon&#8217;s profile of my shopping habits.\t\t\t \t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t     <\/p>\n<p>We all know companies profile us. But understanding that abstractly is one thing. Reading the words \u201chas flat buttocks\u201d in your Amazon account is very much another.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re not on Threads, this discovery is <a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com?id=111346X1569483&#038;xs=1&#038;url=https:\/\/www.threads.com\/@fangirlinmegan\/post\/DeIYWsRkUne?xmt=AQG0d3uJxourtNp69USkvuEZUo_2kqzwlZx_j_ISzV_0x364hdtmm6kjlc3UYyuZfImL4wQ&#038;xcust=2-0-3255207-1-0-0-0-0&#038;sref=https:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/3255207\/what-does-amazon-know-about-you-the-answer-is-buried-in-your-account-info.html\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-subtag=\"2-0-3255207-1-0-0-0-0\" data-domain-name=\"threads\" target=\"_blank\">one of the latest viral posts<\/a>. A woman stumbled upon this assumption while in her Amazon settings, buried among other, less inflammatory ones within the <em>Your Shopping preferences <\/em>section.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, having read that post myself while doomscrolling before bed,<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"echo_read_more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/3255207\/what-does-amazon-know-about-you-the-answer-is-buried-in-your-account-info.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0More Info >>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. This doesn&#8217;t affect our editorial independence . I\u2019m boring, according to Amazon&#8217;s profile of my shopping habits. We all know companies profile us. But understanding that abstractly is one thing. Reading the words \u201chas flat buttocks\u201d in your Amazon account is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":39282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[5729,36],"class_list":["post-39281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tech","tag-consumer-electronics","tag-mixtv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}