Why is it all of a sudden my home page is laden with political crap that I never, not once, EVER looked for on here?
ETSY needs to start doing better. Any way to remove it (without reporting it?
And my home page shows me all of my own products based on my “recent activity”. AI, in this case, means “actual ineptitude”. And, when it’s not showing me my own products, it’s showing me resellers and IP infringers. Yay.
My home page usually shows mine and similar items from other sellers.
Sometimes it's entertaining.
For example, I sell handmade glass buttons and I'll get a page full of various buttons, antique, political, etc. Tells me the AI isn't all that I.
You can search for a few items in which you are indeed interested, then your home page will change to showing more of those types of listings.
My home page shows me psychic/soulmate readings as well as "name" necklaces consistently for weeks now, something that I have never ever searched for. Maybe they are trying to tell me something! As DevineCrossings said, I get to see my own items too!
Quite often, I'll go into: Account (by Avatar top Right of page) > Privacy > Clear Recently Viewed Listings (even though I never clicked on them). And it sort of resets it. But as others have said, I've had my own items suggested to me, "You may like..."
Well I rarely look at the home page. Usually I look when I see a thread like this just to check what has landed there now. So today in "based on your activity" the number one slot is filled with items that are trademark infringement. Since I have never looked for anything like that and don't click on shops here in the forums that people talk about having IP infringement, I'm not sure where Etsy is getting that as an interest. But then that is the problem for me with the home page, they just do not get what I would like or not like to see. It is always a mess when I look of there being many many things I have no interest in at all.
ETA that the things on the home page that are of interest to me are usually things I have already found on my own. So I don't find the home page to be helpful towards finding new things or shops that would be of interest to me.
@BirdsongEmporium - As a Floridian I'm often shown some wonderful handmade Disney items, lol.
Yesterday Etsy nudged me towards name-brand sneakers & x-mas items using a wide variety of copied themes.
At least I haven't been shown any baskets of chocolates yet, but I'm waiting until we're even closer to the 25th.
However while these do jump out at me, I've learned to ignore all of Etsy's home page suggestions. Even clicking on a item/link that I'd think will take me to an array of items I really would like to see is a wasted effort.
My home page is actually quite well behaved and tends to show me the things I last looked at (which is usually random items I view to respond to forum posts).
I don't think reporting it will do anything. Go into account settings and clear recently viewed under the privacy tab..even though you didn't do anything. Then fav a bunch of stuff you like.
I think if you don't view or fav often it just starts grasping at straws. I Googled a Bowie album cover in Google images last week because I was having a discussion with my son about something so in my husband's shop his FP was Bowie stuff.
I sell patterns, mostly, in this shop, This morning I had lots of dolls in white baptism dresses on the home page. Nothing I would be interested in buying. Most of the time it shows my competition.
That's the thing, "Nothing I would be interested in buying".
A month ago, I had "marijuana pipes for girls" show up in the "you might like".
I've never searched for any kind of pipes.
And I thought drug paraphernalia was NOT allowed but there were 1,000's of these glass pipes in all kinds of shapes and colors.
I contacted support and they told me since the sellers didn't put "pot", "marijuana" or weed pipes, they were allowed since they could be used to smoke tobacco.
I told them I doubted anyone would buy them for tobacco use.
Well at least today the home page isn't showing our own items but that is probably because the shop is in vacation mode. It is just really weird that there isn't a filter to filter out a seller's own items. Yes, LOL I do like our items. However, I thought the home page was about showing users a feed of things they might like to buy. So including a seller's items on their home page is just strange.
I recently started seeing items from my own store under the recent activity. I’d clicked on them to check something. People told me it was normal and has been going on for years, but I don’t remember it being that way before; and it wasn’t the first time I’ve clicked on my own items.
@PunkyFresh First, try clearing your recently viewed history. If you don’t know how to do that: go to your shop dashboard down at the bottom of the left side bar and click your username. You’ll likely have to sign in and then find the privacy tab across the top. “Clear recently viewed listings” is the top button on that page. If that doesn’t work, try clearing your internet cookies, but the warning here is doing so will close all open internet tabs and sign you out of any website you’re signed into. If that doesn’t work, check all your newest listings for any words that might trigger something related to what you’re seeing. I once used the word “teddy” on my listings for the bears I make. After that, I started seeing racy women’s underwear on the homepage that I couldn’t get rid of. I tried everything, but nothing worked. In the end I had to remove the word teddy from everywhere in the shop, and finally the listings went away on the homepage.
I rarely go to the home page. I have my shop home page booked mark and that's how I enter etsy. I did go and looked at it. It shows what I last searched for, christmas stuff and stuff that is similar to what I have faved. Nothing odd for me.
Ditto that here @CatsBeadKitsandMore I have our shop dashboard bookmarked and just head straight there.
I don’t remember the last time I went to the home page. All I have bookmarked is the forums.
Ditto to that too @OmasFabricStash I have our shop dashboard and the forums bookmarked on my browser bar and just go straight to either of those pages instead of the home page.
THANKS everyone I seemed to have fixed it. Just don't understand why i was getting "sponsored ads" front and center the past couple days. crass political bumper stickers and the like gtfo
Couple weeks ago I had lots of pics of women in tiny swimsuits with their asses very prominently shown and a bunch sexy anime pics. Not sure how I got either of those as I haven't looked at anything similar at all on Etsy and no matter how much I tried to get rid of them by looking at other items they stayed very prominently on my first page as "picks for you". Then as sudden as they appeared they disappeared again after a week.
Almost as fun as earlier this year when I had months of seeing a certain keychain (yes I also sell keychains, so it made sense to get suggestions for some). It was a silicone keychain of testicles, hairy testicles.... and it looked quite realistic. I think you even had the option with or without hair. Hah I was so glad when it finally went away. It made a comeback some months later for a couple days, but knock on wood it will never come back again.
I wish there was an option to block certain items, or block certain types of products from showing as suggestions.
My home page has bunch of my items right now and yarn. That’s what I was searching recently.
Previously there were bunch of mature items that I have no idea why they put them there. I never searched for anything like that!