Amazon privacy?

[cg21]

I suggest everyone who has an Amazon app to go to settings and click “permissions” first off look at how they make the buttons so they ALL look like they are turned off. That is already extremely troubling how they try to hide it. Next I would like you to look at some of the permissions they ask for. They use your camera/photos to get your body shape to suggest clothing!?! There are many troubling things when you read them, I know I know. You have nothing to hide blah blah blah. I understand that, I am boring also but at some point you have to stop and think how creepy it all is.

the reason I was looking into it because I was viewing the gas stabilization thread 30 seconds before going on Amazon then I got on Amazon and the whole page was gas cans and stabil…..

 

[foszoe]

Yeah but my wardrobe has EVERYONE talking, not just Alexa.

 

[Itchytriggerfinger]

Have you considered deleting the Amazon app? I stopped putting shopping apps on my phone and only order from a computer. I'm sure they're still tracking me somehow but I don't get the creepy ad recommendations anymore.

 

[radar8756]

Without the app how can you order Cat Treats in the grocery store parking lot when the store is out of them ?

 

[BiscuitsandGravy]

Use the webpage version.

 

[pute62]

Get rid of your phone/laptop/app device all together. It's the only way to stop the madness

 

[cg21]

So on my tablet the permissions were barely visible …. Looked on my wife’s phone and they were clearly marked?

 

[Jaybird1980]

So on my tablet the permissions were barely visible …. Looked on my wife’s phone and they were clearly marked?

Clearly marked on mine.

What tablet do you have?

 

[cg21]

Clearly marked on mine.

What tablet do you have?

iPad

 

[Jaybird1980]

iPad

I wonder if apple has something to do with that, is your wife's phone apple also?

 

[cg21]

I wonder if apple has something to do with that, is your wife's phone apple also?

It is. I’m telling you it was bizarre. All the buttons were turned to “off” but if you looked really hard some were barely visibly bolder. Clicked and sure enough they were turned on.

 

[Jaybird1980]

It is. I’m telling you it was bizarre. All the buttons were turned to “off” but if you looked really hard some were barely visibly bolder. Clicked and sure enough they were turned on.

Hmm, well there goes that theory.

On mine they are clear. Orange and white so pretty easy to tell

 

[cg21]

Hmm, well there goes that theory.

On mine they are clear. Orange and white so pretty easy to tell

Yeah my wife’s phone was blue and white.

 

[fullmetaljesus]

Yes out phones are always monitoring us for advertising.


A friend an I were talking about it once and I brought up something that neither of us had any real interest in, neither of us had searched for it on our phones. The next couple days I was getting ads for the thing I brought up. Look for something once and for weeks you get ads. It's just part of the stupid future we live in.

 

[dvd1955]

Thanks for this. They sure want to use the camera for a lot of stuff. Shut them all off.

 

[indyblue]

It’s pretty simple really, don’t install any apps that don’t come with the phone (except of course firefox).

My phone has one paid for app on it, RadarScope, so that I can keep tabs on the weather when I take the Firebird out for drives or car shows.

At first, I thought apps were a cool idea but as time progressed Apps were no longer doing unique or special things, they just became glorified web interfaces likely riddled with all kinds of telemetry that can’t be obtained through a browser.

I use my phone as a communication device for phone calls text and email but not as a general computing device, I save that stuff for my PC which I have much more control over.

 

[TheGrumpyGuy]

I'm shocked, I tell ya, just shocked...

 

[Ingomike]

Amazon works just fine in a browser, no app needed or wanted…

 

[Libertarian01]

Here's a few more to do away with - completely! And why...



Regards,

Doug

 

[bobzilla]

all the info they are collecting from me is readily available from a number of other sources. Not sure why I need to get wired up in a tizzy over this one too. Life's too short, I'm'a enjoy it.