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Amazon Change Means Wishlists Might Expose Your Address (www.404media.co)
submitted 13 hours ago by tonytins@pawb.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Amazon is telling people who use its wishlists feature to switch to post office boxes or non-residential delivery addresses if they want to ensure their home addresses remain private, as part of a change in how it processes gifts bought from third-party sellers. The change is especially concerning to many sex workers, influencers and public figures who use Amazon wishlists to receive gifts from fans and clients.

First spotted by adult content creators raising the alarm on social media, the changes open anyone who uses wishlists publicly to increased privacy risk unless they change how they receive packages.

In an email sent to list holders, Amazon said beginning March 25, it will reveal users’ shipping addresses to third-party sellers. The platform added that gift purchasers might end up seeing your address as part of this process, too.

https://web.archive.org/web/20260225203949/https://www.404media.co/amazon-wishlist-address-private-third-party/

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[–] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 10 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Amazon handles fulfillment for tens or thousands of third party sellers.

Unless the item you're buying says "sold by Amazon" under the Buy buttons, it's coming from a third party. Prime shipping only means it is coming from the Amazon warehouse, not that Amazon is selling it.

It's been a major issue for years for commonly counterfeited brands, because apparently Amazon's warehouses don't differentiate and all those items are dumped in the same bins, so real products get mixed with fakes and third party sellers get hit with returns, reviews, and even bans for fake products. Apparently Amazon puts the same generic item barcode on all of the items, and once they're mixed into in the bins they no longer can track individual products back to the original seller.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 4 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

Apparently Amazon puts the same generic item barcode on all of the items

This really doesn't make sense.
All extra processes in logistics need to increase accountability and not reduce it.
And simply adding a UUID to a QR is hardly an expensive task.
This outcome is pretty much their intention.

[–] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

It makes sense if they don't care. It works well enough for their marketplace and that's as far as they decided to go with it. Amazon isn't exactly known for accountability.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 0 points 5 hours ago

This outcome is pretty much their intention.

As I said