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[ShowMe]

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@blackhole99 wrote:

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@hopi wrote:

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@ShowMe wrote:

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@hopi wrote:

It is not a person recommending these items, it's a computer that does algorithms from the hits you make on Q pages.

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I figured it was done by computer.....but none of the things on there this morning were things that I hit on the Q page.  I didn't hit anything on there this morning.  Just looked.....lol

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@ShowMe

You are tracked, tagged and all data kept for all ages - even the NSA knows what you look at

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Oh my yes, the first time I saw this I said to myself,"Big Brother is watching". LOL Although it's really not a laughing matter, but the cat is out of the bag so to speak.

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Any time we turn on our computer, they (NSA) know where we are......  That's why we have to be so careful what we say to folks......even in our e-mails.  Heck, even Puttin knows what we are doing......lol

[KYToby]

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@ShowMe wrote:

.....and oh my gosh......the person that does this task just doesn't know what I like and what I would purchase. 

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You do realize there is no person doing this?  It is simply a computer algorithm which places these suggestions based on your browing and purchase history.

I usually ignore them.

[ShowMe]

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@KYToby wrote:

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@ShowMe wrote:

.....and oh my gosh......the person that does this task just doesn't know what I like and what I would purchase. 

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You do realize there is no person doing this?  It is simply a computer algorithm which places these suggestions based on your browing and purchase history.

I usually ignore them.

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Yes.......I know this.  But, the computer doesn't really know I have never purchased any of them.....because I haven't purchased one thing they recommended for me today......  Not a very smart computer......

[Moonchilde]

I get equally ridiculous recommendations from Amazon, which partly bases its recommendations not only on what *I* have bought or looked at, but on what others who have bought what I bought have also bought. If someone bought Poems of Rumi (for example) and a chainsaw, they recommend the chainsaw to me.

All of these algorithm "tools" are a useless joke IMO.

[ECBG]

Sometimes on amazon I have been led to better choices, however, if I just look at something because I'm curious, I don't want to see it for a year and sometimes they can't be deleated!