Jeff Bezos hosted Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell to his private, invitation-only, weekend at a resort he rented out. Bezos had many close ties to Epstein. Bezos also had numerous private dinners with Epstein.
The photo is from a party where Ghislaine Maxwell hobnobbed with him but make no mistake they were close friends.
Make sure to add this note to your files about Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.
I was hoping to find some saucy info on myself, but instead I got things like “prefers premium coffee brands with consistent flavor profiles” and “likely has a workshop”
Mine was pretty bland too. “Has 1 cat” and “reads fantasy”. I wanted to get insulted.
Dude, there are so many places online you can get free insults from, I mean you are already here so why not post about the Ukraine war on lemmy.ml or mistake Star Trek for Star Wars or something.
mistake Star Trek for Star Wars or something.
One’s got space magicians and the others got space wizards
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This is funny.
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As an avid fan of both, I’m not sure which is supposed to be which. Star Trek has all the pazzaz of a magician, psuedo science and technobable explainations. But it also has characters who are literally magical. Meanwhile, Star Wars has old people in secret societies performing rituals in robes - all very wizardly. However, in universe, their “magic” is very well understood, continuously studied, is testable, and even reproducable. They use their well established abilities to trick people, and that’s very magician.
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Yes.
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Yes!
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mistake Star Trek for Star Wars
I’m all about Stargate 😉
Is that the one with the gates deep in space? Deep gate 9 or something?
Your rage-baiting skills are impeccable 😆
Look, they found a way to connect to faraway regions of space and shortcut the journey, and decided a facility was necessary to protect against hostile intrusions and be a hub. Also something about returning control to the natives. Religion / religious zealots bad.
mistake Star Trek for Star Wars
There is a difference?
waits for the incoming storm
Yeah mine was super bland too which surprised me given I’ve bought stuff off them for 15 years or so. Really only references last couple of years.
I’m sus that they may have closed the exposure that is being reported
Maybe I’m just too honest with Alexa…
might wanna get checked for lactose intolerance then
I think my favorite was “Systematically building electronics component inventory”, but pretty much the same, mostly just my brand preferences and the stuff I tend to buy.
I’m also really deliberate in how I shop Amazon though: sift through my options in a private window and once I narrow down to what I want, copy the link, remove the tracking garbage, open it in my regular window, add it to my cart, rinse and repeat. It’s probably a paper shield at best, but good to know it helps curb the “[spends an inordinate amount of time comparing items, two thirds of which are also available on Ali Express]” inference.
Systematically building electronics component inventory
Possible goal: self-hosting, possibly webshop. Possible future competition.
Concussion: nip in the bud.
Action: sending black ops team…
concussion indeed
Dammit. My AI needs work.
I was impressed by how many categories I made about cheese.
It thinks I really, really like Japanese curry.
And it’s goddamn right.
It was a boring dud for me, just that I prefer grey ELEGOO filament for my 3D printer.
I don’t buy much on Amazon, but it should be more than just filament. No notes about headphone choice or random one-of items I have bought?
I’ve bought sooo many sex toys on Amazon, they definitely didn’t engage with that part of my uhhh “legacy.”
It has to be looking for trends, rather than one-offs, otherwise the list would be endless for some of us.
The one I find interesting is “prefers premium shampoo brands”. My first thought was: what? But I buy “salon size” so I don’t have to buy frequently, and my kids apparently like nice stuff, so technically true but may not mean what they think it does
I mostly use Amazon to order stuff my tech-illiterate dad wants so everything it thinks about me is wrong.
I’m a professional carpenter. I buy a fair amount of tools on Amazon. But I don’t have a home workshop, I just use this stuff at work. I live in a tiny apartment haha. I just think it’s funny that amazon thinks this is all a hobby for me.
I got “watches diverse films extensively”
My first item “uses Linux”… But does it know I use arch btw?
Doesn’t enjoy shopping with: Amazon
“Has no money.”
I mean, yeah, but why you gotta call me out like that?
This should shock no one and if anything the shocking thing is transparency (though that is likely a ploy as I guarantee based on these articles plenty of people will go view it to correct the record, giving Amazon a great source of refinement for ad tracking)
Literally every major website (and basically every website that run JavaScript for that matter) tracks and profiles you. Your tv does the same, as does your phone and almost all the apps on it, etc. and the profiling they don’t show you definitely exists: race, political affiliation/leaning, income estimates, address, educational level, health issues, etc
People discovering their apps watch them.
Amazon is definitely going to plug that hole.
It’s not a hole they see it as a service. You can even give feedback on their notes about you.
I wonder if they already did… my account has no such link.
There’s the ticket… thank you!
Yeah they have removed it - between when I looked at it on my phone this morning while procrastinating about getting out of bed and now it has been removed from the UK website - the below link still works (modified to .uk)
Yeah… I think the link is still sanitized and not what everyone else was seeing…
Either that or they "haven’t collected any data on me yet… "
You guys didn’t turn off ad personalization?
How did they ever get this groundbreaking information?!
I logged into my old US account. It didn’t have anythin on me, but did have this:
LOL. Fuck no.
Yeah mine is the same. Plan to keep it that way. I don’t know how it got that way, probably saw an article like “opt out of all these AI features” and then did all of them without even thinking.
There is no “about you” option on the Canadian version 🤔
Yeah I think maybe USA only?
After shopping a lot from them for 22 years now, what a letdown:
About you
We haven’t saved anything yet. As you shop on Amazon or chat with Alexa, we’ll save helpful information to personalize your experience.
Once we have saved some details, you can manage them here.
Looks to be not a thing in EU, can’t find the UI for it
I found it in the location the article said. I had to enter from the browser in “desktop mode” with my phone, but the section was empty
Ooh okay, so maybe not in the app yet in EU?
The “manage your information” section doesn’t exist where I’m at.
(Yes, I did a text search)
Instead, we have “request your data” which likely would give you complete files of all data they have on you. I’m not going to crawl through that right now.
Even though I’m on desktop, I had to follow the article’s mobile directions to find the relevant page. Here is a direct link that may work.
“useAiMode=1”? Really?
It’s what triggers the page the article’s about. Take it off and you get a totally different page.
I selected the request to get advertisement related. Theb they sent a freaking email with a confirmation link. I decided to go through.
After selecting that, they say something like, “it should be completed in a month, but it can take more time because of high request volumes.”
Yeah a database query is going to take a month.
Facebook took about 2 months back then for me, but this was shortly after the GDPR was enacted.
Issue is probably not the database query, but that it is a bunch of databases, and that they are not willing to assign more than a skeleton crew to these things, because they only cost them money and they wouldn’t do it if it were possible to deny it at all.
I’ve done data requests to Google to get all my YouTube and Google photos data in the past. Both took less than a few days, despite the latter covering over 100GB of data.
The former I did so I could get all my subscriptions into a third party client, the latter was so I could easily get all my photos with their metadata into an alternative hosting platform. These data request tools can be useful.
It took reddit a month (to the day IIRC) to send me my data as well (like everything I’d ever written on the site) when I requested all my info just before I left. Must be some law that says a month in it somewhere.
Yeah, I’m not seeing the exact link either as described in the article.
I found the “About You” link at the top of the “Ordering and shopping preferences” section.
That is all that I’m finding, too… I wonder if they already ‘fixed’ it.
I was able to find it by following the mobile app instructions. Mine was pretty boring. It had stuff like “Likely lives in (city where I ship my orders)” and “Likely favors (brand of thing that I’ve bought multiple times)”. I guess the most invasive thing is that it guessed I live alone, or rather that I “likely has one adult.”
Look for “About me”
These are pulled from the item descriptions. OP probably bought something ‘for flat butts’ and boom it goes in their preferences.
Mine is literally just all things I bought from amazon. So yeah.
It thinks I’m married with two kids, because well, I buy lots of toys and things for women for the holidays… well yeah because I have nephews/nieces and two sisters… so of course I buy things for kid and women regularly as gifts.
Jeff Bezos does not understand the thought of buying something for someone else.
Jeff Bezos understands it very well, it’s why Amazon worked so well… It is us morons who are convinced that a trivial PURCHASED gift will make us happy. It won’t and it doesn’t it. I’m glad you all enjoy the cheap goods made by children in a sweat shop as a means of caring for your friends and family.