{"id":4285,"date":"2015-01-12T00:04:18","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T00:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/?p=4285"},"modified":"2015-01-12T00:04:18","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T00:04:18","slug":"amazons-app-notifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/amazons-app-notifications\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon&#8217;s App Notifications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I buy a reasonable amount of stuff from Amazon, I use their mobile app a bit. It&#8217;s a relatively convenient way to manage my Amazon transactions.<\/p>\n<p>It also usefully sends you updates, using Android&#8217;s notifications system, to let you know when your items have been shipped, or if they&#8217;re available for collection should you use Amazon Lockers. <\/p>\n<p>In other words, if you see the tell-tale lowercase &#8220;a&#8221; on your device, it&#8217;s worth checking out.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of which, they&#8217;ve just sent me an alert. Let&#8217;s see what&#8217;s happening&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Screenshot_2015-01-08-16-01-53.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Screenshot_2015-01-08-16-01-53.png\" alt=\"Screenshot_2015-01-08-16-01-53\" width=\"887\" height=\"728\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Screenshot_2015-01-08-16-01-53.png 887w, https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Screenshot_2015-01-08-16-01-53-300x246.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 887px) 100vw, 887px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Um thanks, but no thanks Amazon. I didn&#8217;t order that, and nor do I want it. And that&#8217;s apparently a &#8220;personalised&#8221; recommendation!<\/p>\n<p>Note: In your app go to Notifications and switch Personalised Notifications off. Then you just get the more useful ones should you need them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I buy a reasonable amount of stuff from Amazon, I use their mobile app a bit. It&#8217;s a relatively convenient way to manage my Amazon transactions. It also usefully sends you updates, using Android&#8217;s notifications system, to let you know when your items have been shipped, or if they&#8217;re available for collection should you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[153,137,394],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4285"}],"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=4285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4287,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4285\/revisions\/4287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}