Twitch is Amazon's live streaming platform, reviewed for watch and chat data, ads, sharing, retention, and controls.
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Weak
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Weak
Twitch feels social first, but chat, clips, and ad-tech make it much less private than a simple streaming app might suggest.
Twitch is strongest where users still get workable controls for account visibility, deletion, and how some content or chat history is handled.
Its weakest area is the tracking and engagement layer, where ads, chat behavior, VODs, clips, and connected accounts all widen exposure.
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Weak
Viewing, chat, creator, moderation, and interaction data can improve and personalize services and ads.
Streaming and chat content can reveal communities, identity, and interests at a large scale.
Twitch publishes a dedicated privacy notice and account controls.
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Weak
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Poor
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Weak
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Mixed
Legal Privacy Policy
Open: twitch.tv1. Tracking
Viewing, chat, creator, moderation, and interaction data can improve and personalize services and ads.
2. Streaming Chat
Streaming and chat content can reveal communities, identity, and interests at a large scale.
3. Controls
Twitch publishes a dedicated privacy notice and account controls.
4. Controls
Users can manage some account and privacy settings before expanding public activity.
5. No Sale
Amazon says it does not sell customer personal data.
Founded
Unknown
Founder
Unknown
Parent Company
Twitch
Lifecycle
Active
Category
Consumer Platforms & Social
CEO
Unknown
Security Team
In house
Date Added
05-18-2026
Once you delete a chat, you cannot recover it. Deleting a chat removes it both from your visible chat history and the system after the retention window.
Users can manage some account and privacy settings before expanding public activity.
Amazon says it does not sell customer personal data.
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Weak
Data can be shared with Amazon affiliates, streamers, advertisers, service providers, and legal recipients.
Public chat, clips, creator interactions, and linked services make the sharing surface larger than a private media app.
Twitch documents privacy rights and account settings.
Amazon says it is not in the business of selling customer personal data.
Users can manage some visibility and connected-account behavior.
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Poor
Twitch collects device, viewing, chat, cookie, ad, and interaction data.
Live-streaming behavior, ads, and creator engagement signals widen how much behavioral data is available to the platform.
Users can manage some account and advertising preferences.
Users can make visibility and connected-account choices that affect part of the tracking surface.
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Weak
Chat, VODs, clips, moderation logs, legal duties, and shared content all affect retention.
Public clips and chat can be copied or retained by other users even after one account deletes its own copy.
Users can exercise privacy rights and delete some account or content data.
Visibility settings and some content-management choices can reduce future exposure.
Users can manage account connections and related privacy settings.
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Mixed
Public chats, clips, and streams can be copied or retained by others beyond the user's account controls.
The combination of audience settings, creator tools, and Amazon-linked account settings makes privacy harder to reason about.
Users can manage account visibility, chat behavior, connections, and privacy requests.
Users can review ad preferences and account-linked behaviors.
Creators and viewers can manage some content and connection surfaces before exposure widens.
