Near miss

[muckefuck]

I've spent more time browsing Amazon in the last month than I think I have in the whole year prior. The other night, on a whim, I checked to see if they had the latest issue in one of my favourite hardcore gay porn series. (Yes, I know, some of you can already see where this is going.) To my surprise--not least of all because I looked for it in Montreal a few months back and never found it--they did. My mind did waver a brief second before I added it to my cart. Did I really want Amazon to start suggesting titles based on such a purchase? After all, who knows when I might be logging into my account with less jaded eyes present. But I figured they've thought of everything, so there must some way for me to turn off XXX-rated suggestions. Now I thought I'd saved it to my "buy later" box. (I plan to pick up one or two more books before the end of this flurry of gift-buying and, miser that I am, I'd like to group as much as possible to save on shipping.) That I hadn't was something I discovered only after I'd impulsively picked something off my sister's wish list to ship to my mother's and was about to proceed to checkout.

This is one reason why I have one-click purchasing turned off.

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As a late followup to this, you can tell Amazon to not consider an item or items when making suggestions.