• dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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    Or: “Products you may be interested in!” [List of the exact products you already bought.]

    I am not buying a second laptop just like the one I just bought. It is not, in an ideal scenario, a consumable item.

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      Reminds me how people who have been paying much more in rent each month for years, often decades, are constantly refused mortgages for being “high risk” 🤦

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    It more so pisses me off when I buy a really expensive item and Amazon is trying to sell me a second one.

    Like ya, maybe I’ll consider getting another pack of pens, but I think I’m good on the GPU.

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    this always reassures me a little bit. all the tracking and targeting and whatever that we’re supposed to be afraid of on the internet, and they still haven’t figured out a better form of targeting than this.

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    I think it’s Nate Bargatzki who talked about how he bought a refrigerator and then Amazon kept recommending refrigerators to him. He said “I already solved that problem, Amazon. Remember? You were there”.

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      Interesting thing is they could do this smartly. You buy a refrigerator, and Amazon could keep track of average replacement age of that product, then about the time it’s due to be replaced, start sending you ads for another. That is when they would be useful.

      Instead we get ads for the thing we just bought and I don’t understand why this practice continues. It can’t actually result in higher profits…right?

  • pfannkuchen_gesicht@lemmy.one
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    It’s always funny to me when someone talks about how awesome the tech behind recommender-systems is and what complex problems had to be solved to make it work but in the end it’s still just absolute garbage.

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      While you’re here, allow us to tempt you with this fine selection of unadorned plastic garbage cans that are either too small for your garbage or just barely too big for your garbage bags.

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    Let’s be honest though… there’s been a time in your life that you’ve gone into a public restroom and wished that you had your own toilet seat with you.

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      This has got to be from Dead Like Me? I don’t remember this moment, but it feels like a scene from Dead Like Me.

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        Yep. Pretty sure I remember it from there. Shame that show lost its creator and went downhill.

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    Whenever I would buy rabbit food for a rabbit I was taking care of I would always get ads for chinchilla food and food for other small mammals. Like, I’m not out here collecting animals I just got the one.

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    Honestly I was hoping for a more dyslexic moment where the post says “I wanted more toilet seats for fun”. As if she were a totally unhinged toilet seat collector.