• CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 hours ago

    Amazon fucking sucks for me now. Every fucking purchase (which is getting rare and rarer) I get asked to join prime.

    There is no “don’t ask me again”. Every fucking time I have to select “Not now”.

    I’ve come close to writing a plugin to help you skip these ads.

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        5 hours ago

        I already am. At this point, if I’m buying something on Amazon, it’s because I cannot find a comparable product elsewhere.

        I’m even paying more at other retailers. I haven’t run the numbers but before I cancelled prime 4 years ago how, I easily spent thousands. Last year, I think I spent a few hundred.

        This year, my goal is less than 100.

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        4 hours ago

        Lots of small and even midsize sellers are basically forced into use Amazon, because if they don’t, then they don’t exist. So in some cases you literally cannot order the thing anywhere else.

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        I do, the only thing I buy off Amazon now is Zeolite mineral cat litter pellets. There’s simply no supplier in Canada, but I try sourcing from Ebay first.

        It sucks this specific cat litter isn’t more popular. It’s crazy how superior to clay/paper/wood/crystal whatever. Both in annual costs and cleanliness.

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      5 hours ago

      I’ve come close to writing a plugin to help you skip these ads.

      a few ublock rules would probably do the job. it’s possible to even run premade scriptlets to fix up a website

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        I looked into uBlock rules. The problem is that you need to click “No” before continuing. Ublock can block the ad, sure, but they can’t perform user actions.

        Scriptlets may be useful but I think an addon with a library of bypasses (sort of like sponsor block) might be better.

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      3 hours ago

      They were in the middle of anti trust lawsuits where they were going to force google to sell off chrome.

      Lina Khan had like 5 antitrust suits open against the biggest corporations in the US.

      She was appointed by Biden and fired by Trump

      This article is about a law they just made to make it as easy to cancel services as it is to sign up.

      So yeah they’ve been doing a lot recently

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      The fact that you were unaware of what they do has no bearing on the massive amount of work they actually accomplish.