#trying to delete your account is WAY harder oh my godd | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

ellierenae · 10 months

Text

hey guys you probably already know about "dark patterns" as a web design term so i'll just cut to the chase and say amazon appears to be collecting data on your kindle reading habits and has hidden the option to disallow data collection DEEP in the settings on their website where almost no normal user would venture

here's a really quick link directly to the kindle privacy settings so you dont have to descend the madness of submenus but i'll also break down how you'd get there yourself

> amazon.com

> click your name at the top right to open a submenu

> scroll and click "See all account" to open a submenu

> scroll to "Account settings" and click "Manage content and devices" to open a submenu

> near top right of page and slightly off screen on mobile, click "Privacy Settings" to open a submenu

> click "Amazon Devices Privacy" to open a submenu (this is where the aforementioned link takes you)

> click to select an individual device, in this case your kindle to open a submenu

below is a screenshot of the submenu you will have opened

click the orange switch maked "On" (may read strangely with text to speech as it came out as two unicode symbols i hadn't seen before when i used google lens) and you will be greeted with this pop-up

finally you can click "Turn off", the switch will be grey and (in a few minutes, according to them) they'll have to stop mining your data

woohoo.

i hate this company

#privacy #booklr #bookblr #kindle #readers community #trying to delete your account is WAY harder oh my godd

36 notes · View notes