I do not want my buying habits mined , bought and sold, etc. They are my property and not subject to the whimms of amazon or any other company.
just let me make a purchase and let that be it. at least other retailers give you the option of using a 'loyalty' card if you want to be tracked.
In order to make a purchase of X it is required that another party exists to make a sale of X. Let's call this transaction A. Why do you believe that the metadata of transaction A is owned solely by the purchaser and is not equally owned by the seller?
Even further, is there really a differentiation between the purchaser and the seller? It's really just an exchange of a good or service for dollars where the "buyer" is the one with the dollars and the "seller" is the one with the good or service.
This happens at any online store you purchase something at. This isn't unique to Amazon.
Agreed, everything about amazon has been getting progressively worse. Prices, reviews, products, usability, shipping, etc.
I hopped on Amazon and realized I don't trust any of the things they sell to not be fake/junk/something I don't want near my eyes.
I still ended up buying some because I don't really have time to get to the store, but I spent money to try and get a more repubtable brand. Hopefully they aren't fake.
Why no try to limit the universe of data collection by being selective with sites purchasing from.
I'd say any change you'd make is like farting in the wind at this point.
Of course, that's entirely your call to make.
There are other data mining processes I personally find much more nefarious.