Wishlists and cookies
This is yet another one of those things designed by morons. Sure, they sound great in theory, but so does dating your cousin. It just never seems to be the right thing to do.
Amazon has a wishlist feature where you can put things you'd like to buy in it. I put in a few books, and then it started suggesting all sorts of stupid books that I started saying I either owned or was not interested in. Well, that just opened up a landslide of continuous suggestions that kept getting worse and worse. From a nonfiction book by a political science author, I found myself facing screens of computer game choices in some kind of seven degrees of separation from Hell. I guess somewhere down the line I said that I owned Neverwinter Nights, and now this wishlist comes at me with games I would never play, like Doom 3 and Farcry, the shoot em up kind of games. To be honest, I NEVER wanted a single game on my amazon wishlist to begin with because I would NEVER buy a game through amazon anyway; their prices for games are usually pretty stupid.
This is probably why I will never have a gmail account. The whole idea of my email recommending ads for me is like asking for Amazon to start filtering my spam for me.
Netflix does this same thing. I watch a stupid movie once, and from that point on forever I get "recommendations" of the stupidest movies of all time. And you can't get rid of them because even if you say you're not interested, they find even worse movies to throw in there. Look, just because I liked Charlies Angels Full Throttle because I drool whenever I see Lucy Liu does not mean that I am interested in XXX the movie. The other thing that gets on my nerves with Netflix is that if I'm in the middle of watching a 7 CD TV series, it wants me to evaluate the whole series after I finish watching the very first CD. And that stupid request never goes away, and it blocks the evaluations of movies that I may actually have wanted to evaluate.
The point: none of this "extra convenience" is proving to be more convenient. If I want to buy your product, I'll search for your product. Just because I use dishwashing liquid doesn't mean I am in the market for a microwave oven.
Stumble It!
This is yet another one of those things designed by morons. Sure, they sound great in theory, but so does dating your cousin. It just never seems to be the right thing to do.
Amazon has a wishlist feature where you can put things you'd like to buy in it. I put in a few books, and then it started suggesting all sorts of stupid books that I started saying I either owned or was not interested in. Well, that just opened up a landslide of continuous suggestions that kept getting worse and worse. From a nonfiction book by a political science author, I found myself facing screens of computer game choices in some kind of seven degrees of separation from Hell. I guess somewhere down the line I said that I owned Neverwinter Nights, and now this wishlist comes at me with games I would never play, like Doom 3 and Farcry, the shoot em up kind of games. To be honest, I NEVER wanted a single game on my amazon wishlist to begin with because I would NEVER buy a game through amazon anyway; their prices for games are usually pretty stupid.
This is probably why I will never have a gmail account. The whole idea of my email recommending ads for me is like asking for Amazon to start filtering my spam for me.
Netflix does this same thing. I watch a stupid movie once, and from that point on forever I get "recommendations" of the stupidest movies of all time. And you can't get rid of them because even if you say you're not interested, they find even worse movies to throw in there. Look, just because I liked Charlies Angels Full Throttle because I drool whenever I see Lucy Liu does not mean that I am interested in XXX the movie. The other thing that gets on my nerves with Netflix is that if I'm in the middle of watching a 7 CD TV series, it wants me to evaluate the whole series after I finish watching the very first CD. And that stupid request never goes away, and it blocks the evaluations of movies that I may actually have wanted to evaluate.
The point: none of this "extra convenience" is proving to be more convenient. If I want to buy your product, I'll search for your product. Just because I use dishwashing liquid doesn't mean I am in the market for a microwave oven.
Stumble It!
posted by Duane @ 10:29 PM
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