{"id":68877,"date":"2022-04-22T10:29:21","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T17:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/?p=68877"},"modified":"2023-02-21T15:55:50","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T23:55:50","slug":"how-to-delete-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/en\/internet-culture\/how-to-delete-amazon\/","title":{"rendered":"How to delete your Amazon account"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How to remove yourself from the internet | #AskFirefox\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cZBYwK4kvIA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Amazon has had its fair share of controversies, particularly about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/privacy\/ftc-chair-pushes-privacy-rules-calls-for-limits-on-data-collection\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">data collection<\/a> and how the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2022\/04\/04\/amazon-union-win-could-usher-new-wave-scrutiny-its-labor-practices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">retail giant treats its workers<\/a>. If you\u2019ve decided that easy access and quick deliveries aren\u2019t worth the price anymore, here\u2019s how to delete your Amazon account:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Go to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/privacy\/data-deletion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/privacy\/data-deletion<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Make sure to read which Amazon services you won\u2019t have access to after you delete your account. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Check \u201cYes, I want to permanently close my Amazon Account and delete my data.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hit <strong>close my account<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Check your text messages or emails for a notification from Amazon. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click on the <strong>confirm account closure<\/strong> link. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Enter your password. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/help\/customer\/display.html?nodeId=GDK92DNLSGWTV6MP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>More information from Amazon<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With our lives so online, our digital space can get messy with inactive and unnecessary accounts \u2014 and forgetting about them can pose a security risk. You\u2019ll be off to a good start with <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/internet-culture\/how-to-delete-instagram-facebook-online-accounts\/\">our one-stop shop for deleting online accounts<\/a>, but it\u2019s far from exhaustive. So here\u2019s a bonus tip: <a href=\"https:\/\/monitor.firefox.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sign up for Firefox Monitor.<\/a> It alerts you when your data shows up in any breaches, including on websites that you\u2019ve forgotten giving your information to. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has had its fair share of controversies, particularly about data collection and how the retail giant treats its workers. If you\u2019ve decided that easy access and quick deliveries aren\u2019t worth the price anymore, here\u2019s how to delete your Amazon account: More information from Amazon With our lives so online, our digital space can get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1889,"featured_media":68760,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461998],"tags":[],"coauthors":[464117],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How to delete your Amazon account<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Amazon has had its fair share of controversies, particularly about data collection and how the retail giant treats its workers.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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