How to Stop Amazon Searches Appearing on Wife's Tablet?

JohnSwift10

My wife has a Samsung tablet that also has my Amazon account on it as she uses it to buy e-books from Amazon Kindle to read on the Kindle app on the tablet.

This has the unfortunate effect that anything I search for on Amazon on my tablet or computer appears on her tablet.

Just now she shouted up to me, I don't like these earrings you are looking at. OOPS

How can I stop this or should I just look on eBay?

DullGreyGuy

JohnSwift10 said:

My wife has a Samsung tablet that also has my Amazon account on it as she uses it to buy e-books from Amazon Kindle to read on the Kindle app on the tablet.

This has the unfortunate effect that anything I search for on Amazon on my tablet or computer appears on her tablet.

Just now she shouted up to me, I don't like these earrings you are looking at. OOPS

How can I stop this or should I just look on eBay?

Why is she using your account rather than her own?

I have a similar problem but it's more my issue when I look on my amazon account on the bus and all the "recent searches" are pictures of underwear or bikinis that she's been searching for. Makes me feel that people will think I'm 12 still. 

To answer my own question, she changed her phone number and forgot her password for her Amazon account. 

JohnSwift10

Why is she using your account rather than her own?

Because she doesn't have an account, she never has had one and doesn't want one.

DullGreyGuy

JohnSwift10 said:

Why is she using your account rather than her own?

Because she doesn't have an account, she never has had one and doesn't want one.

Then you have to accept a shared history.

If she were to have an account she'd have her own history etc and if you subscribe to Prime you can add her as family and she benefits from Prime without the need of an additional subscription. 

Exodi

You can go to: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/history

Clear gear in top right corner and select more settings to turn off/on browsing history.

Alternatively you pause browsing history (e.g. during Christmas) or you can remove certain items.

Reason I know this is because we (as a company) sell to Amazon, with many users across the business logging in to access the back-end to check things like inventory/advertising/etc. The problem is if a member of staff decides to do some personal shopping on Amazon (but forgets they are signed in as the business), they could inadvertently start adding things like underwear sets to the browsing history which could cause a lot of embarrassment (ask the girl who works in our Customer Service team!).

Emmia

JohnSwift10 said:

Why is she using your account rather than her own?

Because she doesn't have an account, she never has had one and doesn't want one.

I think the easiest way is for your wife to have her own account - you could set it all up for her, do the family sharing things in terms of the prime subscription and kindle books so it would be the same as her current experience.

Dazed_and_C0nfused

JohnSwift10 said:

My wife has a Samsung tablet that also has my Amazon account on it as she uses it to buy e-books from Amazon Kindle to read on the Kindle app on the tablet.

This has the unfortunate effect that anything I search for on Amazon on my tablet or computer appears on her tablet.

Just now she shouted up to me, I don't like these earrings you are looking at. OOPS

How can I stop this or should I just look on eBay?

Would the girlfriend not see that as a downgrade 😉

Emmia

JohnSwift10 said:

My wife has a Samsung tablet that also has my Amazon account on it as she uses it to buy e-books from Amazon Kindle to read on the Kindle app on the tablet.

This has the unfortunate effect that anything I search for on Amazon on my tablet or computer appears on her tablet.

Just now she shouted up to me, I don't like these earrings you are looking at. OOPS

How can I stop this or should I just look on eBay?

Personally I find Etsy is better for earrings / jewellery than either Amazon or eBay.

Sarahspangles

JohnSwift10 said:

My wife has a Samsung tablet that also has my Amazon account on it as she uses it to buy e-books from Amazon Kindle to read on the Kindle app on the tablet.

This has the unfortunate effect that anything I search for on Amazon on my tablet or computer appears on her tablet.

Just now she shouted up to me, I don't like these earrings you are looking at. OOPS

How can I stop this or should I just look on eBay?

You could set up a new account for yourself, and add yourself to the main account through family sharing.

HillStreetBlues

Just log out of your account then search away.

GDB2222

I think it’s sweet that she’s interested in what you are doing.