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Old 01-05-2015, 07:02 PM   #17
eschwartz
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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana View Post
My Kindle Keyboard has the special offers, I haven't seen anything advertised that I want, but it hasn't been worth the $20 to remove it. I see many romance novels advertised, and I've never once purchased a romance novel for my Kindle, nor do I intend to.

But today, I pick up my Kindle, and what do I see on the screen saver? Fifty Shades of Grey. Oh, Amazon, do you truly know me so poorly? We spent all this time together, and you think I might be interested in that book? I don't care if others want to read it, but it's not a book I would buy. All this data they could mine on me, and Amazon thinks I want Fifty Shades of Grey? It's like having Boris and Natasha from Bullwinkle spying on me. If only there was a "Hell, no!" option that would inform Amazon of my utter disinterest.
I basically ignored ads until I got a few like this, that is when I complained to customer service and had them removed for free.

Being as I am in a religious school, that kind of ad would raise eyebrows even if I didn't personally have a problem with the ad.


Well, I did offer them that I would be fine if the ads could be filtered or targeted to certain categories.



@Xanthe, @EbokJunkie, interesting, perhaps I had an effect on them!
Too bad it still wouldn't help for me on fw5.3.7
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