Nothing quite jolts the senses than the experience of lazily surfing around the Internet anonymously, then suddenly coming across an Amazon button on some’s guy blog giving you a shout out…. using your REAL NAME.

Holy…

Apparently this is the result of Amazon’s relatively new Honor System, but they do promise you that your private information isn’t shared with any third party. Sure. The button looks like this by the way:

Just to be on the safe side, I quickly went to Amazon’s site so I could log out and prevent such shout outs from happening in the future, only to find that there wasn’t a signout link ANYWHERE on the page! What kind of crap is this? And I know why it’s set up that way too, to ensure that as many people stay logged in for as long as possible, that way Amazon can track them wherever they go online. But they’re soooooo concerned about my privacy. Yeah sure, sit on it Bezos.

Easy solution was to just delete the cookie Amazon created in my browser and then exclude them from ever setting a cookie for me again. Jerks.