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[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 37 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Every time I see those ridiculous "have another one!" ads, I'm happily reminded that, well, if that's the best they can do with all the technology and the money they have, there is still hope.

More likely they have hard numbers saying that for most of their products this approach work, and why bother having a button letting people tell the algorithm they have something already? All that would do is expose them to fewer ads. And you never know, maybe one will eventually give in and buy another toilet seat just in case!

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 15 points 2 days ago

there is still hope

On the contrary, you should expect them to put more effort into using that stuff in ways that don't benefit you than in ways that do.

Let's go with one example. There's this United Payments Interface (UPI) app called Google Pay.

  • They let you add a comment when paying.

    • go to Google Checkout and download previous years payment data to help with accounting and you don't get the comments along with it. You have to go into the app and open each entry, one-by-one to see what was what.

  • They keep the timing information of when you pay.

    • They also know which tower you were connected to at what time
    • They also have location data from Maps being open at the same time
    • This would tell that they have the ability to let you check the exact position at which you paid
      • But will they let you? No. Even the timeline feature doesn't give accurate history.
        • Because somehow they believe we will think that their database is that inaccurate and we are somehow safe (despite having the driving navigation on at the time)

  • They started removing handy features to access timeline features from desktop.

    • somehow acting like it is making stuff more secure, when all it is doing, is reducing our ability to access our own data, while their "partners" can still do so.
[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Remember when they had a button you could push and it would just order individual items for you? Presumably with no further authentication?

Well, I just learned that while they are discontinued, you can apparently buy an instructional audiobook on them. Possibly I'm being obtuse, but from that listing it seems like it also includes a set of the buttons as well.

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I still see that button (in the mobile version, anyway).

What’s more alarming is that I’ve run across several things akin to toilet seats (things you probably buy like once every 20 years) that have defaulted to the ‘Subscribe and save’ option. I don’t know if this something the seller does or if AI is flagging things for them, but it’s insidious.

If you’re not paying attention, you can wind up an accidental collector of toilet seats.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Since moving to my current house ~3 years ago I've had to replace every toilet seat at least once (the state of them when I moved in was pretty abysmal) and two twice.

Perhaps becoming an accidental collector of toilet seats wouldn't be the worst thing to happen to me.