Amazon Is Keeping Me Prisoner
10I tried to sign out of Amazon to make sure the link I just posted doesn’t have any personal information because I’m stupid that way. How to sign out? No clue on the main page. The old drop down menu is gone. Search log out in the search bar- there is a Kindle book that tells you how to log out of an Amazon account. It costs 99 cents. Haha!
So after much internet fu I found a youtube video- type sign out in the search bar and it will bring up the option to sign out of your account.
Does this change scare anyone other than me?
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I’m starting to hate Amazon.
/giphy I don’t like you
@Barney I have a love/hate thing going with them.
@sammydog01 Me too. -sigh-
As an owner of a very small bit of AMZN stock, it sure does. I’ll report it to CS right away. - wait, we’re talking about the same thing, right? There should be NO option to sign out?
@OldCatLady I think I’ll just go remove my credit card info now. While they still let me.
I found the sign out under
Accounts and Lists - Your Account - All the way at the bottom (requires scroll)
@lichme Thanks. I tried scrolling down to the end and I kept overshooting it and losing the menu. I still hate them for this.
@sammydog01 what about clicking the not me button?
@sohmageek The one on the main page? Gone as far as I can tell.
@sammydog01 My ‘not me’ is stil there, but you need to be signed in.
Yeah. At the top-right hover where it says
Hello, medz
Account and Lists
At the very bottom of the hover menu, you’ll see
Not medz? Sign Out
It’s been in that location for awhile now. I find it super annoying when sites bury their signout button/link. I also find it annoying that I have to say I’m not me when I want to sign out. I AM me, but I still want to sign out. Why do I have to state I am not me?
Also annoying is when the button/link to “sign in” is less prominent than the “sign up” link. Once you have an account I guess places assume you’ll never sign out and never need to log back in again.
@medz Yes, my hovering over list skills are lacking. And if I click through to get the account and lists page the sign out option isn’t there. At least I can’t find it.
@sammydog01 to test a link for personal info (or if it requires a login), I always open a new “incognito” or “in private” window in a different browser and paste the link in there.
@medz
^^^this.
However, Amazon’s failure to make it easy does suck.
Just tried to sign out on my phone. I don’t know how to hover on my phone. Any signing out tips? Without restarting my phone?
@sammydog01 Clear your browser history/cache
@sammydog01 On the mobile site, I click the little person icon in the top right then scroll ALL the way to the bottom and there is a logout link.
@sammydog01
Clear cookies history cache and everything else.
Or open an incognito browser page.
Or just use another browser for not-logged-in use.
@medz There it is!
Wow. That sign-out was hard to find!
Thanks for finding it, I kept scrolling past it also.
AMAZON. They will control you…
@sammydog01 I went through the same thing last week when I was trying to find away to log out on my tablet. I googled, youtubed, and was on amazons site for hours and nothing worked. Using one of methods on your post I found out how to sign out, but it’s a useless step because the sign out page has your email address right there with your pw encrypted. In order to sign back in you just go to Amazon and push sign in at the top of thepage and there’s your email and pw and you just push sign in. So anybody that has access to your tablet can access your account. I was trying to find a way to log out where you actually have to provide your email and pw. Amazon is doing this intentionally making it too easy for people/children to make unauthrized purchases using your account. They paid out like $70.000.00 last week to people that had huge purchases on their account that their children had made. Does anyone know a way to remove your email and pw so that you can actually secure your account.
@growyoungagain
It’s probably the browser that is saving your login info. I don’t allow browsers to save login info.
Check your browser settings to stop it from saving login or password info, and then delete all the login info the browser already saved.
Then clear cache and cookies from the browser. Kill all browser data, if you wish.
That should fix this, unless I misunderstand the problem.
Just a hint for the future the way to post amazon links stripping any referal and tracking is to just remove everything after the amazon item number… for example:
should become
Just yesterday Alexa showed up uninvited on my Kindle. Hope she’s not listening to me talk to myself all the time.
@callow
On a Kindle Fire
Turn off Alexa
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=202083830&sa-no-redirect=1
Turn off camera
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201634420&sa-no-redirect=1
If you can find the “Share” link and icons on the product page, you can get a nice short link from there. Just choose the “Email” option, copy the short link, and don’t submit the form.