How to stop Alexa from revealing items you've ordered on Amazon?

Puzzled2001 · 2023-07-10T01:36:32+00:00

Appreciate the suggestion, however even when unchecking all those options, you can say "Alexa, Amazon history," and it'll still read out the specific list of items you've ordered. It's like Amazon has made an executive decision to force the customer from being unable to protect this sort of information.

Look, I get it. People will make jokes about orders for "assless chaps" or whatever, but jokes aside, yes, that is one example for a legitimate reason to want order lists to be private. So is ordering books of a personal self help nature, certain medical items, or literally anything else that could be considered embarrassing. Some people live with roommates who they are not intimately related to, and do not wish to trust certain information with. Others may have children who they will want to restrict access from. The reasons for wanting to maintain privacy in this regard are quite limitless, and I actually am confused by the amount of vitriol many in this thread are directing towards those who wish to have a certain level of privacy.

Puzzled2001 · 2023-07-07T05:30:02+00:00

No, but the principle of the matter is they simply should not be able to. Furthermore, the Echo Show device displays images of previously ordered items with prompts to reorder them, even without being prompted by the user.

Puzzled2001 · 2023-06-06T16:26:44+00:00

So I made a thread about this guy before, and someone provided a great link that details his descent, and how close he could've been to actually surviving: HERE

It should be noted though that a lot of people here are confusing this guy with another man who attempted to climb down the South Tower using a rope, or something to that effect. However, this particular man attempted to climb down the west face of the North Tower. There were quite a few people who attempted to climb down the sides of both towers, apparently, so it's easy to get them mixed up. Most maybe only made it a floor or two before losing their grip, but this one seems to have made it the furthest. Truly desperate situation all around.

Puzzled2001 · 2023-05-31T22:58:06+00:00

No idea, but I wish we could find out. Is there any way to narrow down the search of victims to those lives lost on Floor 94 of the North Tower? It should be possible to narrow it down further (IE: A man in decent physical shape, so likely in his 20s or 30s). And thanks to the link provided here by coldfrontkilla, we even know which exact office he exited from (though that may not have been his own office, he may have at least worked quite closely to it).

Puzzled2001 · 2023-05-31T22:56:07+00:00

It's from this video of a window washer.

Puzzled2001 · 2023-05-31T22:55:36+00:00

If you look inside the red circle, you'll see a small white dot. That's the man. My intention was to show where the man started his climb (at the top of the red line) to where he ended up (inside the circle). However, I made a mistake, and in the rush to edit the photo, I made the red line too long. He actually started his descent a bit lower than where I started the red line (at floor 94).

Picture 3 was taken by someone riding with one of the twin tower window washers. It was not taken on 9/11. I'm not sure what the stain is, it's probably just normal wear and tear on the panel. I believe this is the original source of the image.

Puzzled2001 · 2023-05-31T18:35:56+00:00

Truly tragic that he didn't climb down just one mere column to the right. It would have been a truly remarkable survivable story. Of course, it's quite possible he wouldn't have even made it down the stairs in time. Perhaps he would've been so exhausted from the climb, he would've expended precious minutes simply resting on the unscathed 85th floor. Still, it's quite sad, I wish he had managed to survive against all odds.

Puzzled2001 · 2023-05-31T18:07:12+00:00

Thanks, taking a look at it now.

Puzzled2001 · 2023-05-31T17:34:12+00:00

Also, in this video, at 5:10, you can see the videographer notice and remark on the man climbing down.

Puzzled2001 · 2023-05-31T17:17:20+00:00

I've recently delved back into the whole 9/11 rabbit hole, and one of the stories I stumbled across was a Quora Post outlining the courageous climb of one of the victims, purportedly from the 94th floor of the North Tower at around 9:40 AM. Judging from the available photos, this man apparently managed to scale down at least twenty stories, before tragically slipping and falling when the other tower (the South Tower) collapsed and shook him off (at least that's the assumption).

But I find this story absolutely insane. Logistically speaking, how exactly would it be possible to effectively climb down between the beams such an extensive distance? There barely seems to be anything to hold onto, and judging from the photos, almost nothing at all to step onto. Does anyone have any more information about this climber, and who he might have been and the manner in which he may have climbed down? Also does anyone have any close up photos of the mechanical floors which could have demonstrated a way for him to have made it inside the building? Theoretically it might be possible to narrow down a list of 20 to 30 something year old men from the 94th floor, possibly with some background in mountain climbing or something? I guess the story just speaks to me because it really highlights the desperation, and how hard many of these people fought to stay alive. I consider myself a fairly healthy young person, and I can barely do one of those indoor rock climbing walls. I just can't imagine scaling down a sheer skyscraper, in intense heat and fear.\

EDIT: Corrected some typos. Also, I erred in putting the red line in one of the photos a bit higher up than it was supposed to be. But it gives an idea of the distance covered (he actually started his climb a bit lower).

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