Amazon.co.uk used to have a feature where you could look at your recommendations by category - so you could click on recommendations and then select (say) books and it would show you recommendations related to your past book purchases.
It had an 'improve your recomendations' button where then all the books on the page you could mark as either 'not interested' or 'I own this already'.
They appear to have totally binned this function so now you just a mass off global recommendations across all purchases with no way to either mark something as not interested or select only books to look at.
I contacted them about this and they say the only way to adjust it is to individually go into the 'improve recommendations' tab - which includes everything you have ever bought and slide the switch to off individually for every single item where it says "Use this for recommendations"
Good luck if you've had a few large grocery orders. There isn't even a tick all boxes on this page.
It's driving me crazy and I can't understand why they've done this. I used to buy a lot of books that came up in my recommendations but now I just get utter drivel - with no way to deal with it.
I'm posting now because I am SO aggravated about CONSTANTLY SEEING Richard #@$& Osman and his stupid books appearing on my recommendations. I will never buy any of these books so it's so annoying I can't do anything about it - because I haven't ever bought one so can't even 'turn it off'.
I don't get why they'd do this. The old recommendations system was great and as I said, I used to buy loads from them as a result.
Even more annoying is that I gather the USA site users can still mark stuff as not interested.
Very irritated. If I see the cover of one of those Thursday murder club things again, I'm going to start screaming!!!