More Amazon Signal

07:44 Wednesday, 4 February 2026
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Read this morning's post from Eliza Daley and had the thought that I needed to delete my credit cards from Amazon as well. Made a "mental note," got up, showered, had breakfast and sat down in front of the computer to watch my morning YouTube videos (Colbert and Kimmel), got distracted by a Bulwark video (watch it), and then saw this one from MSNow and Scott Galloway, which is about Galloway's campaign to have consumers send a signal to the tech companies that we're not ok with what's going on.

I decided to go a step further. I've deleted all my credit cards from Amazon, and I've requested a copy of my purchase history. (All the way at the bottom of the Accounts page.) After I receive that report, I'm going to delete my Amazon account. I don't know how this will affect my Kindle books. Some time ago, I had removed the DRM from my library to that point. I've bought several since. I expect I'm essentially going to lose access to at least all of those. My Kindle may even be useless, I don't know. I may regret this.

I'm also going to cancel ChatGPT. I'd been thinking about subscribing to a Claude bot, I really have no idea what Anthropic offers, I've been mostly using OpenAI and not much of that, frankly. The new hotness seems to be Claude, and there are occasions where a chatbot has been helpful.

But deleting the Amazon app from your devices, and deleting your credit card information from your Amazon account is a signal with minimal real inconvenience; and can help send a message to Jeff Bezos that we're not putting up with his bullshit anymore.

I've said that I'm ashamed and embarrassed that I can't dump Apple. I'm embedded in the ecosystem, I like too many of the TV+ shows, it's just the way it is. Though I'm just as outraged at the spineless, lickspittle conduct of Cook as I am at Bezos.

Now I can watch Colbert and Kimmel.

You know what to do.