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[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Remember when they had a button you could push and it would just order individual items for you? Presumably with no further authentication?

Well, I just learned that while they are discontinued, you can apparently buy an instructional audiobook on them. Possibly I'm being obtuse, but from that listing it seems like it also includes a set of the buttons as well.

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I still see that button (in the mobile version, anyway).

What’s more alarming is that I’ve run across several things akin to toilet seats (things you probably buy like once every 20 years) that have defaulted to the ‘Subscribe and save’ option. I don’t know if this something the seller does or if AI is flagging things for them, but it’s insidious.

If you’re not paying attention, you can wind up an accidental collector of toilet seats.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 1 points 40 minutes ago

Since moving to my current house ~3 years ago I've had to replace every toilet seat at least once (the state of them when I moved in was pretty abysmal) and two twice.

Perhaps becoming an accidental collector of toilet seats wouldn't be the worst thing to happen to me.