{"id":172,"date":"2003-01-08T23:18:58","date_gmt":"2003-01-08T23:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2003\/01\/when_internet_r\/"},"modified":"2003-01-08T23:18:58","modified_gmt":"2003-01-08T23:18:58","slug":"when_internet_r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2003\/01\/when_internet_r\/","title":{"rendered":"When Internet Recommendations Go Bad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just had the shock of my life. I went to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\">Amazon <\/a>and because of cookies and what not, it knew who I was. Nothing unusual there. And knowing who I was, it tried to recommend stuff to me. Fine. I have no objection to this. And what was number one? <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Title?0240515\">Freddy Got Fingered<\/a>!!!! Possibly the worst film to be made in the last 10 years. No redeeming features at all. Why?<br \/>\nActually, Amazon has a button marked &#8220;Why&#8221; and I clicked this. It seems that I looked up <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Title?0261392\">Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back<\/a>, a film which I do want to see, but so far haven&#8217;t (I didn&#8217;t either buy it or rate it as Amazon says).<br \/>\nI like to think that there&#8217;s an ever so subtle difference between Kevin Smith and Tom Green.<br \/>\nThis is the thin end of the wedge I must say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just had the shock of my life. I went to Amazon and because of cookies and what not, it knew who I was. Nothing unusual there. And knowing who I was, it tried to recommend stuff to me. Fine. I have no objection to this. And what was number one? Freddy Got Fingered!!!! Possibly the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}