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I've been using smile.amazon.com since August 2019, and to date I've generated $6.01. I guess I don't use Amazon as much as you. It's like, shit, for the amount of trouble I've gone through to make sure I'm on smile.amazon.com instead of www.amazon.com, I should have just given some money to my recipient.

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There is some browser plug-in to redirect you there if that helps.

I don’t know how smile works on the mobile app. Perhaps it doesn’t.

It does: https://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=15576745011

Indeed, I configured a Redirector[1] rule to do it:

    Redirect:     https?://www\.amazon\.com/(.*)
    Pattern type: Regular Expression
    to:           https://smile.amazon.com/$1
    Applies to:   Main window (address bar)

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/redirector/

Smile is available on the iOS Amazon mobile app, but only if you allow Amazon to send you promotional notifications.

But then you need a browser extension just for that? It’s a bit overkill. I wonder if this works well with /etc/hosts or local DNS.

So? The amount of additional memory, disk, and processing it takes up are basically nothing in the greater scheme of things.

How strange. I just checked my Smile account and I've generated £6.01 for my charity (my childrens' school). What are the odds...

From my perspective, the odds are fairly high that in a large group of people, two of them happen to have the same Smile account balance.

Sure, but in this case it was a case of me not knowing one could check their Smile balance. GP posted their balance, prompting me to check mine, and the total was the same. That feels more akin to me going into a room and the first person I talk to having the same birthday as me than just finding 2 people in a room who happen to have the same birthday.

The situation is probably closer to this: Lots of people went into a room and asked someone what their birthday is. Only you happened to have the same one, so no one else said anything.

But, congrats on using up your luck for the next month or so. :)

If I posted “Think of a number. 1-100. Got it.........

You’re thinking of 17!” some of the hundreds of readers would be amazed by my accurate prediction

That's the classical birthday "paradox" but that's not what happened here.

Here, a random person in the room announced their birthday, and the question is whether someone else in the room shares that birthday. It's a very different situation, where I'm guessing you need around a thousand people for it to be very likely that their birthdays coincide, compared to the twenty or so for the birthday paradox.

I just set z as my search prefix in firefox, send via sync to all devices.

there are tons of redirectors to smile.amazon.com in the chrome and firefox stores

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