Honestly I am so fed up with Amazon right now. My 30th birthday is coming up in two weeks and I spent like three hours curating this wishlist because my family in Ireland keeps bugging me for ideas since shipping there from here is a nightmare anyway. I finally finished it and set the privacy to Public thinking okay great now I can just blast the link out in the family group chat and be done with it. But no. My mom messaged me saying she cant even see the items because it keeps forcing her to log in and she doesnt even have an account plus she hates setting up new passwords for everything.

I tried looking this up and I keep seeing conflicting info online which is just making me more confused. One site said if you use the Invite button and select View Only it generates a special link that bypasses the login but I tried that and it still sends me to a login screen when I test it in a private browser. Another post on a different forum said that Amazon basically killed off the ability for non-users to see lists because they want to force everyone to sign up for data tracking or whatever.

It feels so stupid that a Public list isnt actually public. Like what is the point of that label then? I just want a simple way for people to see what I want without them having to jump through hoops. I even tried looking at my account settings to see if there was some global privacy toggle I missed but I found nothing useful. I just want my aunt to be able to see the specific coffee grinder I picked out without her getting a headache from a sign-in wall.

Is there some secret setting buried in the desktop site that actually makes the list viewable to the general public or is this just how it is now? I really dont want to have to move everything over to a third party site like Elfster or something this late in the game. How do I let people without accounts see my Amazon wishlist?