Reply to post: Just confuse them where possible.

Someone made an AI that predicted gender from email addresses, usernames. It went about as well as expected

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Just confuse them where possible.

Amazon has little idea of my age or gender.

In the past, I got DVDs to entertain the kids, when daughter went to Uni, I got textbooks for a student nurse and items of equipment she needed - torches to shine in your eyes, weird shaped scissors etc. Our son recently got trainers off it. I also got stuff for my in laws that denote some needs that are probably not in my age range yet.

The only thing they have a good handle on me for it my tasted in reading as I imagine they combine their records with Audible.com and realise that I like science fiction. Can they gauge my age by the fact that many of the authors I prefer are dead?

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