{"id":7179,"date":"2017-11-09T18:01:09","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T18:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/?p=7179"},"modified":"2017-10-25T18:02:12","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T18:02:12","slug":"linked-the-war-to-sell-you-a-mattress-is-an-internet-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/11\/09\/linked-the-war-to-sell-you-a-mattress-is-an-internet-nightmare\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;The War To Sell You A Mattress Is An Internet Nightmare&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:2439,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.fastcompany.com\\\/3065928\\\/sleepopolis-casper-bloggers-lawsuits-underside-of-the-mattress-wars&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250809235601\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.fastcompany.com\\\/3065928\\\/sleepopolis-casper-bloggers-lawsuits-underside-of-the-mattress-wars&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-04 00:11:54&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-04 15:38:43&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-16 06:41:37&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-01 06:24:40&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-08 09:23:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 03:56:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-18 17:16:41&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-18 17:16:41&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/3065928\/sleepopolis-casper-bloggers-lawsuits-underside-of-the-mattress-wars\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">via Wired<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>By early September, the updated Casper review amounted to an endorsement. \u201cOverall my experience with Casper was very positive,\u201d the new review concluded.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Casper\u2019s battle had been hard fought, but it got what it wanted in the end. Now those who saw cute Casper ads on the subway and later Googled \u201ccasper mattress reviews\u201d would no longer have their purchase momentum stymied by the first site they clicked on. They\u2019d be waved along by Sleepopolis\u2019s green light.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Casper had finally hammered out the last, most troublesome kink in the yawning purchase funnel that lured ever more traffic to its billion-dollar online storefront. The company could indeed claim, as it did on its site, to have \u201cthe internet\u2019s favorite mattress.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019ll never buy a mattress from this company. The way you do business is who you are as a company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via Wired: By early September, the updated Casper review amounted to an endorsement. \u201cOverall my experience with Casper&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"2017-11-09T18:01:51Z","apple_news_api_id":"8cc24610-653d-4cbf-8c23-9851e6ec97f0","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2017-11-09T18:01:55Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AjMJGEGU9TL-MI5hR5uyX8A","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"middle","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":["https:\/\/news-api.apple.com\/sections\/a6dbab72-c794-3987-8514-c419907b32a3"],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7179","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-linked","7":"cs-entry","8":"cs-video-wrap"},"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1RN","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12036,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2023\/03\/21\/linked-dpreview-com-is-dead\/","url_meta":{"origin":7179,"position":0},"title":"Linked: DPReview.com is dead","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"March 21, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Two months ago, I purchased a Canon R5. 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