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[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 6 points 7 months ago

Similarly:

We've been tracking you for decades now. We know your location at all times. We know about the humidifier you bought. We know you do everything in English, but we also know you're trying to learn Spanish. We know who your family members are based on your interactions with them, and we have vast databases on them too. We know about the plane ticket to Turkey. We know about the new bathing suit you bought. We know about the English language guidebook you bought for Turkey.

We know you're now in Turkey on your vacation.

Here's an ad in Turkish for a humidifier sold in a Turkish store.

You go to a different country, and despite the massive privacy invasions, and the terabytes of data they have about every aspect of your lives, they think you speak the local language and show you ads you can't even understand for products you'd never buy while there on a vacation.

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 6 points 7 months ago

"You know what? I'll treat myself. Just one more dozen of toilet seats."

[-] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

They should push you to buy a dehumidifier. Then you can put them on opposite sides of the room for humidity wars.

[-] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 7 months ago

that's a crime against humidity

[-] CannedYeet@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

In the case of something weird like a humidifier, the average person is so unlikely to buy a humidifier that it's actually more likely that someone who buys one is going to return it and get a different one. Or they bought the first one to evaluate it and have some reason to need more than one because they have multiple houses or something.

[-] southernbrewer@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

Round here we tend to buy dehumidifiers. Why would someone intentionally increase the humidity in their home? That way lies mo[u]ld

[-] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 7 months ago

Too dry and your skin gets all dry and cracky, and every lightswitch or piece of metal furniture shocks you when you touch it

[-] axexrx@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

For a lot of people, humidifiers only get brought out when theyre sick, so the hot wet air soothes their lungs and they cough less...

Then there was my grandmother. She had both in her music room, to protect her piano and custom built harpsichord. They were set to keep the humidity in a fairly narrow range to keep her from needing to retune.

The dehumidifier was mounted on the wall, with a hose running into the tank for the humidifier below it, so it kept it topped up with the h2o pulled from the air on rainy days, with another hose running out of that tank at about the 1 gallon mark, that fed through a hole in the floor to the basement sink, to dispose of excess water. Both were wired up to an old school analogue hygrometer, with a control circuit powering each unit when it fell outside of its respective range.

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[-] Stern@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

I buy a lot of (Primarily used) books off Amazon (Though Ebay grows more attractive by the day.) so thankfully my recommends are filled with other books. Apparently they have a semblance of a clue there.

[-] python@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

If you're somewhere in central Europe, Vinted is amazing for buying used books!

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[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

A very annoying feature of that company. Always trying to sell you what you just bought, sometimes at a lower price its like theyre saying HA HA you got screwed

[-] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago
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[-] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

ikr like how many goddamn steam mops do they think one house needs

[-] CaptainCapy@piefed.social 4 points 7 months ago

I bought a new mattress last year and I swear not even a month later they were emailing me with mattress ads. Time to start my mattress collection.

[-] bcgm3@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

You may have heard of the "sales funnel," well, let me introduce you to the "sales loop..."

[-] stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yeah I just bought a tank on Amazon and now it's like "here's some ammunition for your tanks" and I'm like "ahh actually no thanks I don't want a visit from the FBI thanks"

[-] GR4CELESS@lemmy.zip 3 points 7 months ago

I mean, with the rampant enshittification of consumer technologies, there's every chance the thing you just bought off Amazon will break after a much shorter lifespan then expected. There's even a chance this was planned and accounted for...

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[-] teolan@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Let me introduce you to the dad delivers blog. He bought a dehumidifier 2 years ago and since hasn't stopped buying new ones and talking about them:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5GL2M_HNyaLy_kEQwVp0KQ

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