• Aeder@lemmy.world
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    46 minutes ago

    Mine has nearly everything other than brand preferences wrong, since I buy both my stuff and other people’s stuff plus gifts through the same account.

  • IamMoonPie@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    Why are so many of you still shopping with Amazon? Genuinely I do not understand it.

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      Because Amazon wiped out what Walmart and other big box stores didn’t kill in the first round. Sometimes there’s literally no place else to get what I need, not even order it in to a local store. On top of that, Google search for products is so wrecked that the choices it returns are amazon links, or links to websites that also provide amazon links to the same products. It’s fucked up.

      (FWIW I do buy local or direct from businesses other than Amazon when possible, but it’s simply not possible all the time)

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        1 hour ago

        So what you’re saying is, you shop on Amazon because it’s easy… yeahhh that’s not a good enough excuse.

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          Sure bud. I’m not here to drive 9 hours and two states over to pick up something I need, if that’s even an option, just to satisfy whatever BS arbitrary metric you have in your head.

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            Or… and here me out here, maybe just do a little more research and purchase online from companies that AREN’T Amazon.

            I get we all want shopping to be easier, but that’s no excuse to fund the facist machine that is Amazon.

            I’m going to hold your hand when I say this because I know this will be hard to hear, but it’s not just about you and your “convenience” buddy.

            I’m disabled and can’t drive anywhere, and I somehow manage to figure it out. Sometimes it takes a while, but I can do it.

            What could you possibly be shopping for that’s only on Amazon? And if said company is only on Amazon— why would you want to support them anyway?

            All I’m saying is, if an idiot like me can do it, so can you.

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              11 minutes ago

              I feel llke you really need to watch the show, The Good Place. After you finish it, come back to your comments and you’ll understand why I said this.

  • ayyy@sh.itjust.works
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    Lmao they think I have kids.

    …actually now that I think about it for 5 seconds I think they just love defrauding advertisers.

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    Seems to only work on Amazon.com. My .ca info isnt shared. It says the following though:

    "Make Amazon even more personal to you

    Your other AI assistants have learned about you. Bring that knowledge here for an even more personalized experience."

    I think I’ll go chuck my computer and iot devices into a dumpster now.

  • Baguette@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    They said I upgraded my computer hardware in the past year which is funny because I mean have you seen the prices?

    It’s probably pulling from me buying a keeb as a gift but I wouldn’t consider peripherals as part of computer hardware lol. Technically but also not really

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    2 hours ago

    “Likely lives in City, State”

    Birch you ship everything I’ve ever ordered to the same address. Best you can do is “likely”?

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    Mine is pretty straightforward, “builds electronics” “has precision tools” “likely has a french press” (I do, I bought it on Amazon), “prioritizes high-speed data transfer”, “Probably has a computer system with internal expansion” (I bought an NVMe SSD from Amazon once), “Likely lives in (the town in my saved shipping address)”

    So surveillance. Much sleuthing.