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Re:You can deactivate anyone's WhatsApp account by simply se... by anshumankmr on Monday July 17, 2023 @10:38PM (#36767131)
So I have an amazon.com and amazon.in account. The latter one is my main account but the former one I created to redeem a gift card I got from a survey.
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Re:You can deactivate anyone's WhatsApp account by simply se... by lxgr on Monday July 17, 2023 @10:47PM (#36767206)
Seems more like an artifact of Amazon having enabled global logins late into product development than a "feature" to me.

Are you absolutely sure it's two accounts? I am using the same login on two different Amazon sites as well, but I'd call that SSO more so than "two accounts on one email address", since all data is separated by country, but the email and password are the same.

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Re:You can deactivate anyone's WhatsApp account by simply se... by anshumankmr on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @04:43AM (#36769576)
It has separate order history
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Re:You can deactivate anyone's WhatsApp account by simply se... by joshspankit on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @09:17AM (#36771659)
It’s an artifact, you’re right.

Source: I also had Amazon accounts in two separate countries and witnessed the different phases of global logins being implemented.

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