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Google-Amazon connection? (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by DeuxChevaux@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Today I was watching a few YouTube videos about groundwork with horses. First time I did that. Yes, I was logged in.

Later today, I hopped on Amazon to track one of my packages. And in my suggestions, there were horse grooming kits, halters and the like, even though I had never before looked for things like these on there.

My mail addresses are different on the two places, and so are, of course, my passwords. I am on Linux with Firefox, uBlock etc. So this must be an incredible coincidence, a miracle, mind-reading, or maybe witchcraft?

I wonder what I could tweak to make things like this happen less in future. I am thinking of adding a Pi-hole to my router, yet I am no longer so sure, if it would help?

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[–] fictitiousexistence@lemmy.ml 6 points 7 months ago

Amazon has connections with everyone including banks.

Amazon likes to offer a free trial and then after you cancel well before the free trial ends, they continue to charge you month by month.

I had this happen to me a few times. The most recent time I reported my American Express card lost/stolen, that way I would get an entirely different card number/expiration/cvv/ everything. I continued to get charged every month by Amazon.

Turns out banks will continue allowing certain companies like Amazon to continue taking payment even though the original card information you provided was changed and reported lost/stolen. Amazon is so big they can ask for your CC information once and continue to take payment without re-authorization no matter the situation.

https://www.reddit.com/r/amazonprime/comments/16bpca8/comment/k8u5mps/

Do not use Amazon for anything.