[TexasGunLover]

Do whatever you like. Most likely you're mistaken on how your using the device as a "Special Offers" device. We have actual dozens of devices from Amazon and they don't perform the way you're describing. It's also possible you installed software with malware.

If you're that worried, set up a Pi-Hole as your DNS service and you can black hole device-metrics-us.amazon.com. Our devices make 40k calls a day to them...

[perfect stranger]

Can you explain that last paragraph again?