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I once googled (before I had privacy plugins) for a coffee machine. Bought coffee machine. I was stalked by coffee machine ads for a month.
by emsy 11y ago
I once googled (before I had privacy plugins) for a coffee machine. Bought coffee machine. I was stalked by coffee machine ads for a month.
- Freak_NL 11y agoHad the same thing happen to me with a monitor. I neglected to install an ad-blocker right away on that freshly installed computer. Not making that mistake again.
- trowawee 11y agoAmazon is the worst about this. "You just bought an ITEM_X, clearly you want to buy ITEM_X_CLONE as well." So stupid.
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- Godel_unicode 11y agoTry the "this was a gift" checkbox in order history. I've been hesitant to share this as I don't want it to stop working, but it's magic for me. Allows you to select what you want ads for in the future.
- ceejayoz 11y agoYeah, the algorithm behind that is insanely stupid for a company with so many technical resources. No, Amazon, I don't want to buy three more $1,300 SLR cameras.
- trowawee 11y agoI think that's why I find it particularly inexcusable. No company pulling in that much money, with that kind of tech muscle, should have a recommendation system that poor.
- Spooky23 11y agoOnce in awhile it will reanimate old purchases too. I took a class in college many years ago to meet a diversity requirement that involved reading a bunch of books about gay Latinos. I'm neither gay nor Latino, but something refreshes that connection -- every couple of years they decide to hit me up with books on the topic, including books that I bought for the class.
- _nedR 11y agoMaybe their algorithms is trying to any nostalgia you might be having for some old topic? In your case they figured wrong, but I can see how it could work for old games, movies, music, tv shows, etc.
- BraveNewCurency 11y agoIt's the worst when ITEM_X is a large TV. I wonder what percentage of TV buyers will impulse-buy a second TV because of "you might also like.." recommendations. Can't they make a list of products compatible with my TV and sell me that?
- jon-wood 11y agoI'm sure they could. I certainly got an email from them a few weeks after buying a camera offering me accessories for it.
- ars 11y agoI wish there was a way to tell an advertiser "I Bought it, stop bothering me". I don't want to completely block ads because I understand how they bring in money, but there has to be a way to interact with them a bit to make them less annoying.
- prawn 11y agoI have searched for help info about Xero. I already use it, but repeatedly get their ads now. Saddest bit is that I own Xero shares, so not excited that they're wasting money on ads!