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[–] 54 points 3 years ago* (4 children)

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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    [+] 42 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (12 children)
  • [–] 26 points 3 years ago (11 children)

    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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  • [–] 35 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    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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  • [–] 33 points 3 years ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 29 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    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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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    It's not really that interesting, you find hot spots where interest between items is correlated.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    yeah similarly to AI right? Also not really interesting, you just do some math and boom: AI!

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (2 children)

    AI/ML covers a ton of algorithms, some of them are that boring, some of them aren't.

    Re above. Take all users who viewed all items. Run a MapReduce to segregate them into pairs. Calculate the frequency of pairs and store the result. That clearer? More expensive than complex.

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  • [–] 27 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Get yourself a little something! See new listings for 3mm machine screws!

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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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  • [–] 22 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 21 points 3 years ago (12 children)

    I'm amazed that people still buy from Amazon.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago (11 children)

    I am curious, what do you use?

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (7 children)

    For a toilet seat is probably go to bunnings warehouse.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    I have two choices in this town- a big box store or buy from Amazon. At least I don't have to get in my car and drive 10 miles, park in the back of a parking lot, be bombarded by corporate propaganda in the form of visuals and audio, annoyed by salespeople who have been told to annoy me on purpose and finally get to the toilet seat, then stand on line for 20 minutes because they have one cashier and the guy at the front of the line wants to pay in a combination of a handwritten check, pennies and lottery tickets and won't listen to the fact that they don't accept checks, pennies or lottery tickets, then walk through the parking lot and drive back home if I buy from Amazon.

    Other than that, what difference does it make? Either one horrible megacorporation gets my money or the other one does.

    The fact is, those of us outside of larger cities, we don't have a lot of options much of the time. There is no small business hardware store here. Not anymore.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    The fact is, those of us outside of larger cities, we don’t have a lot of options much of the time. There is no small business hardware store here. Not anymore.

    Perhaps not, but are there not online alternatives to amazon?

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  • [–] 20 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Sounds like you should go for “Subscribe and save!”

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  • [–] 16 points 3 years ago

    Seat yo self!

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  • [–] 15 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago

    "Imagine you had a mood toilet seat and you come home to find that there is an imprint of an ass that had used it it. And it was angry."

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    It's mad!

    I bought a laptop, from Amazon, something I do at most every 2-3 years.

    For months since Amazon has been spamming me with laptop offers. I don't see what the best case scenario here is, I return the one I bought and get a new one?

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    [–] 7 points 3 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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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    Donna Meagle: "Treat yo self!"

    Tom Haverford: "Treat yo self 2023!"

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    That's why uBlock Origin is the GOAT.

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