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] /boston/2015/08/04.1

[2] /boston/2006/02/04.1

[3] http://www.amazon.com/

[4] /boston/2015/08/06.1

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