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               Oh my! Amazon dropping support for a legacy link!
                                        
For a moment there, I thought my post about jury duty [1] finally broke the
Amazon targeted advertising [2]—all I was getting was a generic public
service announcement about eating the hungry or something like that, with no
link. Just bland text.

But no, all that happened is that Amazon [3] stopped supporting a URL
(Uniform Resource Locator) I've been using for the past nine years (which, to
be frank, is odd behavior with Amazon; they're usually pretty good about
supporting legacy links). It just took a bit longer than I expected to find
the updated URL and now my self-targeted Amazon advertisements are working
again.

Whew!

Update on Thursday, August 6^th at 12:40 am

Amazon finally notified me of the change [4] … 


[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2015/08/04.1
[2] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2006/02/04.1
[3] http://www.amazon.com/
[4] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2015/08/06.1

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