# Are there any disadvantages to using Amazon Smile?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 6, 2020, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-disadvantages-to-using-amazon-smile/914430 "2020-07-06T02:02:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2020, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-disadvantages-to-using-amazon-smile/914430/21 "2020-07-08T03:01:37Z")

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I’m former board president of the charity. As far as I’ve heard from the EO, they get an aggregated payment and no information about the donors. I am not aware of receiving any solicitations from this or other charities related to using Smile.

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