• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    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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    2 years ago

    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.

  • pfannkuchen_gesicht@lemmy.one
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    2 years ago

    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.

  • SokathHisEyesOpen@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    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?

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    2 years ago

    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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    2 years ago

    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.