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Only in the aggregate. The site owner doesn't know who purchased what. Only Amazon (obviously) knows.

The site owner only sees that 35 people bought book X while 24 people bought book Y.



Anonymous data can easily become identifiable when it's small enough, as GP was saying.

If someone runs a tiny blog that they attempt to monetize with affiliate links, and one of their only readers at the moment is their mother, I don't think they'd be happy seeing that one of their readers purchased a sex toy.


This is exactly the right approach. Anything specific enough can be traced back to an individual.




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