Tech companies know everything about me – so why do they try to sell me so much rubbish? | Joel Snape

No, Amazon, I do not want to buy another version of the thing I just bought, or any other random object I don’t recognise or understand We live, as I’m sure someone’s chief growth officer has recently boasted on an earnings call, in a golden age for data capture. Jeff Bezos knows what I buy, read and watch; Mark Zuckerberg will be aware that I recently sold a car transport box for a medium-sized dog. I’ve been ruthlessly conditioned into clicking Accept All Cookies every time I want to check how much cumin my favourite chilli needs, and I simply accept that my washing machine is probably spyin