[andymc]

Yeah, it's going on for 15 years since I bought anything from Amazon, for the reasons you cite.
It's odd - back in the 90s and early 2000s, in spite of not being a tech head I was an early adopter of so much new tech and new services that were appearing in terms of using email and web from the early 90s, having a PC of my own for professional purposes as far back as 1995, using machine translation even before the advent of Google Translate - or Google, for that matter - then embracing the likes of Amazon, Google, FB etc when they first appeared. Nowadays, I don't use Amazon, FB or any other social media such as Twitter/Instagram etc. I don't even use Google! (make DuckDuckGo your search engine of choice ...) For years, I've been using add-ons and other software which prevent any tracking by FB/Google of my internet use. Otherwise it gets really awkward to sell all my drugs, weapons and porn dontchaknow.