Mastodawn

important safety/security concern if you have an accessible amazon wishlist and especially if you use it to receive things from internet people or other strangers: you can no longer disable sharing your address with third party sellers. These folks can and often do disclose it to the purchaser.

And, to be clear, anyone can be a third party seller on Amazon which means anyone can get your physical shipping address and full name with ease.

Despite what this email says, the Amazon list page says this functionality is already disabled thus you are already at risk ("This setting will no longer be supported starting February 25, 2026. After this date, third-party sellers will receive your shipping address to fulfill orders.")

This is bad. If you have any hope for privacy and do not use a PO Box, make sure to unshare your lists.

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Joe ❌👑Feb 26

@gintoxicating This is bad, but it looks like the third party only gets your address if someone buys something on your list from a third party, the third party gets the shipping address. Can the person who owns the public wishlist protect themselves by avoiding including any third party items on their list? Or can someone "gift" you an item for the purpose of obtaining your address? I don't know the answer. Or maybe setting the shipping address to a nearby Whole Foods or similar could keep you anonymous.

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Ginny Mae

@not2b most items can be sold by a third party and Amazon will choose who fulfills the order, so there’s no way to avoid the possibility of it happening.

Which means it’d be pretty easy for someone to order something and have a good chance of getting address information (eg from a shipping email maybe)

For a wishlist address you have to supply a physical mailing address; free options for pickup like Whole Foods aren’t an option from what I can tell. And things like a PO Box can be expensive