A few months after Klara was born, Amazon Vine’s recommendation algorithm must have decided that I was ready to get pregnant again (I wasn’t and am still not, unfortunately.) It started offering me ovulation trackers and pregnancy tests. A bit later, it must have decided that its ovulation kits worked and started offering me maternity wear and prenatal vitamins.
Nine months later, I started getting offers for breastfeeding kits and baby clothes. And now that the imaginary child should be around 3 months of age, I’m getting offers for infant toys and playards. The imaginary child is a boy, which is the level of specificity that creeps me out even more.
I wonder when the algorithm will start factoring in my age and will realize that pushing out one kid after another at my age is not what normally happens, much as I’d have liked to think it does. How many imaginary kids will Amazon Vine endow me with? Because I have a feeling I will start getting a new round of ovulation trackers from them very soon.
Is it weird to feel guilt-tripped by Amazon’s algorithm?
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I don’t know? How much information does Amazon have about you? They could be basing it on your age, or past purchases or wishlists (for not just yourself, but say your niece and nephew).
I have shown no signs of having a kid, but if I surf Facebook without an adblocker I get ads for ovulation kits.
At least they’re wrong unlike Target’s algorithm.
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I buy from them all the time, I’m an addict. And still they haven’t figured out that offering me dresses in S size is offensive.
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What I find funny is that after going on a trip my browser is full of ads for that place (often for the hotel I was just in….).
I find it a little comforting that they’re so…. clueless…
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And I love it when I buy something and then get ads for that same object for months. Like it’s normal for people to buy dozens of porch benches or stuff like that.
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Is it weird to feel guilt-tripped by Amazon’s algorithm?
LOL
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Is it weird to feel guilt-tripped by Amazon’s algorithm?
At least it’s not Amazon Alexa or Siri or
this AI(Please Send Cat Pictures)trying to tell you about nappies, teething rings and unscented lotion.
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I wouldn’t even try them because speech recognition devices are universally baffled by my accent. I’m sure it would be the same with Russian language devices because I have an accent in Russian, too.
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