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Amazon uses its tracking data to guess whether shoppers have a flat butt and no friends
Some of Amazon’s descriptions sound more like a roast.
theverge.com
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https://theverge.com/tech/1006712/amazon-about-you-shopping-data
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Source 1: theverge.com
Amazon uses its tracking data to guess whether shoppers have a flat butt and no friends
Some of Amazon’s descriptions sound more like a roast.
Marked as found on the page, exactly, October 8, 2026 at 11:31 PM EDT. The check history below is the evidence.
Check history
A run of checks that came out the same way is one line, with every check in it folded underneath. Any check that came out differently is its own line.
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| October 7, 2026 at 9:46 AM EDT to October 8, 2026 at 10:16 AM EDT | Link resolves | Passed | 200 | 2 checks over about 25 hours, the same result every time. 200, text/html, 391006 characters, landed on https://www.theverge.com/tech/1006712/amazon-about-you-shopping-data The wording varied; every check is below.Every one of the 2
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| October 7, 2026 at 9:46 AM EDT to October 8, 2026 at 10:16 AM EDT | Page contains the quotation | Passed | 200 | 2 checks over about 25 hours, the same result every time. the page contains the quotation, exactlyEvery one of the 2
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