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Google has been about the same for me. I went from total Google fanboy to migrating a lot of my life away from them and advising others to do the same.
No non tech person is going to use Duck Duck Go.
Walmart's online store is now my go-to for most household products. Free 2-day shipping without a subscription and the ability to actually vet their supply chain means it's basically always better.
As other comments mentioned, we are entering a hyperfake decade - and we are only at the beginning. I am virtually certain, we will exit this decade with a profound experience of more and more private universes (which may deteriorate what is left of civil societies even more).
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I went from being an enthusiastic fan of Amazon Prime and a $50k spend one year [+] to closing my Amazon account and then warning other people away from it in the space of about five years. I can't recall any other business from which I've moved so quickly and so far from one end of the spectrum of enthusiasm to the other. [+] Most of it was for business -- parts and equipment for customers, it was often cheaper that…
Google has been about the same for me. I went from total Google fanboy to migrating a lot of my life away from them and advising others to do the same.
I really, really hate being a sucker so for me it's never worth it to buy from Amazon anymore. I'll pay a few dollars more to avoid the stress.
The good news is, it's not even necessarily true that you pay more when buying elsewhere anymore. Amazon is coasting on that reputation but they're no longer subsidizing customers like they used to.
They admit this. Which means buying from them directly is no guarantee.
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How do you convince Congress to pass that legislation when there’s lots of money on the other side lobbying for the status quo?
There's a lot of anti-tech energy on the left lately. And Bezos painted a target on his back by getting into Twitter feuds with Trump. He's also now synonymous with the Washington Post which has never met a Republican they liked. This all adds up to a company nobody seems to like in DC. If there's any company I could see getting a Washington smackdown soon, it's Amazon.
Have you ever actually read the WaPo editorial page?
Walmart's online store is now my go-to for most household products. Free 2-day shipping without a subscription and the ability to actually vet their supply chain means it's basically always better.
Doesn't wal-mart allow drop-shippers to list on their website?
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Very few products on Amazon are sold by the creator. Virtually everything is sold by a mixture of middlemen and importers and drop shippers. Its virtually impossible to tell the difference between a product I'm middle-manning that's interpreted by investigators as real, vs a product that's interpreted as fake. With books, nobody really minds if conceptually a book sat unopened on a bookstore shelf with the general pu…
> fad overpriced gloves and toothbrushes. That description is unfair. Regardless of whether the product is overpriced or fashionable, I want the correct product, without the shortcuts taken by a fake: unsafe paints, plastics etc. I don't mind "Philips-compatible" brush heads being listed, but the description should be clear. Otherwise we may as well repeal all trademark, copyright and product safety laws.