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.
Oh so its my problem because YOU fucked up?
They didn’t fuck up. They’re doing it deliberately.
You fucked up by using Amazon.
Ok
deletes amazon account
I’m protesting tarrifs anyway, haven’t bought a thing in a year.
Well, yeah. If it’s a third party seller that means Amazon isn’t shipping you the product so they have to know your address.
Shouldn’t a wishlist mean that it isn’t shipped at all though? Why would wishlisting expose your home address?
Because people can buy stuff off your wishlist and have it shipped to you. In its current form, it doesn’t expose your address to the buyer, but apparently the change may do that.
I understood it to mean that wishlists currently only offer things shipped by Amazon, so they don’t share your address with other sellers, but they’re going to change wishlists so they offer things from third party sellers, who will need your address to ship things to you. So they’re going to start sharing your address with these sellers.
I had something similar happen at one point, I had a private list that was somehow publicly visible it was so strange, I ended up deleting all of them and never using them again after that
I’ll have to add my wish that strangers would buy me things I want to my Amazon wishlist.
But you still can’t do that, you see, unless you’d like more visitors than usual.
