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A random rant:
Amazon.com is one of the few sites that is not blocked on my computers at work. Therefore I make sure to not browse for any kind of women's clothing items there. Since I am heavy into circuits and electronics, that is typically what shows as "recommended items" on the front page.
Unfortunately, I just look at a one piece swimsuit ONE TIME while at home, now I see Speedo and TYR swimsuits (both male and female) as recommended items on the front page while I am at work. Seriously? I look at power tools and generators far more often, but don't see those popping up on the front page of Amazon when I first navigate there.
I even cleared my search and browsing history within the site and started browsing circuits and tools quite frequently, but I still have a row of Speedo and TYR swimsuits showing on the front page. I put great effort into keeping my dressing a secret, and this does not help.
I would "guess" that Amazon doesn't sell a lot of power tools or generators; but I KNOW they have their own line of women's clothing, and do a lot of business with third-party vendors. They are very aggressive advertisers, and if they ever get your email address, you will also be swamped with "Amazon recommends" emails. Happens to me, too; but fortunately, I'm retired and nobody but me sees them.
I hate ebay and Amazon for thinking they can help me with my purchases and showing the world what I have looked at. I want to look at what ever I want and not have it pop up for employees and people to see. Plus they show recent purchases on the home page! WTF Amazon! I have to jump through all these hoops when I shouldn't. The funny thing is it, it makes me want to spend less money with them because of it! Go figure!
Amazon actually sells a lot of everything. I know guys who buy oil and car parts all the time from Amazon. I buy electronic parts and circuits quite frequently. My rant is about the extensive ads I get for something I looked at ONE TIME instead of what I look (and buy) at all the time.
eBay is not a big deal since I cant access it at work. It was only a big deal when my wife (now ex wife) saw my previous purchases. She is gone now, but I went ahead and created a second eBay account that I use for that. My main I use for purchases I don't hide.
I could do the same with Amazon, but I really don't want to create a second account with them too.
As far as my emails, I have multiple addresses and no one sees them but me.
K that sucks. You have my sympathies. At this point I would hesitate from allowing anyone from using my laptop or my cellphone. I'm not good at remembering to clear my history. Why isn't there an opt out button ??? I am tired of corporate advertising being more important than privacy.
"Just click here to accept terms and conditions". Sucks.
Hugs
Autumn
I already do not let others use my computers. I've assisted many people already where kids have access to their computers who would install crap software and games that cause them to slow down to an unusable state.
I even had to do so when I was with the wife because she would use my facebook account (even though she had her own) to look at random people's profiles and even send them friend requests. I even had to explain to her that the logic behind her using MY account to send friend requests makes no sense and that I don't want to be "friends" with people I don't know.
Hi K Swim. Ah ha! One should not use but let company cp to use with basically will captures data who have wouldn't have advertises. Amazon and ebay and a lot of does to and causes problems. No freedom now of freedom now todays....even microsoft.
DVG.
There is somewhere you can remove items that amazon uses to create recommendations for you, but it isn't easy to find. You can also hide items in your past orders so Amazon won't use them to promote anything new, but there is a low limit on how many you can hide.
I did note that although the last 20 odd items I looked at had nothing to do with women's fashion, the first thing it showed on my "recently viewed" picture was a frock. I've just removed my Amazon viewing history and hidden all recent femme products from my orders and it is currently showing ("inspired by your shopping trends") some pretty handkerchiefs, flypaper(!) and a bracelet. No, I have never bought any of those items from Amazon.
I will only log into my Amazon account at home with nobody around now because of this. And for all the women's Items I view or order, I clear them out of my browsing history, check "don't use for recommendations," or whatever its called, and even archive the orders, but for some reason women's clothing items still pop up on my homepage. really annoying.
The first time I realized Amazon did this was at school a long time ago, I think I was just beginning to experiment with women's things. I was in the computer lab. tons of people around. I went on Amazon to look for a textbook. Thought I'd log on, you know, so I could easily order it as soon as I found it. Because that's exactly what Amazon is supposed to be good for and stuff. Except when I logged on, Amazon thought I wanted to order panties. There was a whole row of them right on my homepage. I was mortified. Luckily I don't think anyone saw. I think I would have set up an alternate account with a different credit card if I knew it was going to be impossible to totally get rid of certain things from your suggestions.
Anyway, long story short. Amazon: definitely not closet CD friendly. sucks so many of us had to find out the hard way.
Hi k,
I know what you mean,
My Ebay and amazon keeps revealing all my searches.
I/m sure my 24 year old daughter is wondering whats up with dad.
She doesn'tuse my computer much but its in the living room so she sees things.
Patty
Yes, I have found that section that you speak of. It's separate from the browsing history....but there were no swimsuits showing in that list for me to removed from recommendations. That one was only in my history the one time and I removed it to no avail ......hence my rant about it in this post.
I occasionally browse Amazon at work...that being the reason I do not use it to purchase swimsuits. I didn't even click a link on the site to look at it. It was something in a Google search that led me there.
I created a separate eBay account after the wife left. It was through my eBay purchase history how she found out about it. Fortunately, that history only shows for 2 years and it has been longer than that since she left. And it is also possible to use the one single PayPal account for 2 eBay accounts. I am don't really want to create a second Amazon account.
same here but with facebook.
i close browsers, have multiple email accounts, etc etc. take all sorts of precautions.
and yet, suddenly now, facebook is constantly recommending lingerie sites and pages for me.
and i do NOTHING that is "out" (nothing gay, nothing crossdresser related, NOTHING) on facebook.