Amazon sellers ‘hijack’ listings to sell face masks despite new rules
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Re: Amazon sellers ‘hijack’ listings to sell face masks despite new rules
#2> We use sophisticated tools, including machine learning, to combat them, and we are making it increasingly difficult for bad actors to hide.
So sophisticated that some reporter for wired could find them in the top few hundred bestsellers in a few minutes with a quick visual scan.
Let’s be clear: Amazon should not be censoring legal items on their platform. However, their efforts at stopping it are purely a PR matter, not a real effort.
Re: Amazon sellers ‘hijack’ listings to sell face masks despite new rules
#3> We use sophisticated tools, including machine learning, to combat them, and we are making it increasingly difficult for bad actors to hide. So sophisticated that some reporter for wired could find them in the top few hundred bestsellers in a few minutes with a quick visual scan. Let’s be clear: Amazon should not be censoring legal items on their platform. However, their efforts at stopping it are purely a PR matter…
> a quick visual scan
Yeah a quick visual scan from a human is super easy to automate.
Re: Amazon sellers ‘hijack’ listings to sell face masks despite new rules
#4> We use sophisticated tools, including machine learning, to combat them, and we are making it increasingly difficult for bad actors to hide. So sophisticated that some reporter for wired could find them in the top few hundred bestsellers in a few minutes with a quick visual scan. Let’s be clear: Amazon should not be censoring legal items on their platform. However, their efforts at stopping it are purely a PR matter…
> a quick visual scan Yeah a quick visual scan from a human is super easy to automate.
Amazon is one of the largest employers in the world. It’s lip service, as further evidenced by the tons of fakes on their website.
https://www.racked.com/2018/1/8/16849298/amazon-counterfeits...
Anyone who wishes, Amazon staff included, can go and see the $10 “1TB” usb flash drives that are just 16GB drives with hacked firmware to report a different size. It takes about 2 minutes to find them. They don’t bother.
The evidence is there if you want it.
Re: Amazon sellers ‘hijack’ listings to sell face masks despite new rules
#5> We use sophisticated tools, including machine learning, to combat them, and we are making it increasingly difficult for bad actors to hide. So sophisticated that some reporter for wired could find them in the top few hundred bestsellers in a few minutes with a quick visual scan. Let’s be clear: Amazon should not be censoring legal items on their platform. However, their efforts at stopping it are purely a PR matter…
What's the difference between a platform that censors and a platform that sorts in a useful way?
Re: Amazon sellers ‘hijack’ listings to sell face masks despite new rules
#6> We use sophisticated tools, including machine learning, to combat them, and we are making it increasingly difficult for bad actors to hide. So sophisticated that some reporter for wired could find them in the top few hundred bestsellers in a few minutes with a quick visual scan. Let’s be clear: Amazon should not be censoring legal items on their platform. However, their efforts at stopping it are purely a PR matter…
> a quick visual scan Yeah a quick visual scan from a human is super easy to automate.
Yes: you can give a human the tools and instructions and they'll sit there for ~8hrs a day doing it autonomously.
Re: Amazon sellers ‘hijack’ listings to sell face masks despite new rules
#7> We use sophisticated tools, including machine learning, to combat them, and we are making it increasingly difficult for bad actors to hide. So sophisticated that some reporter for wired could find them in the top few hundred bestsellers in a few minutes with a quick visual scan. Let’s be clear: Amazon should not be censoring legal items on their platform. However, their efforts at stopping it are purely a PR matter…
> a quick visual scan Yeah a quick visual scan from a human is super easy to automate.
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Re: Amazon sellers ‘hijack’ listings to sell face masks despite new rules
#8Why don’t people just fire up their own domain drop in an e-commerce store and sell these face masks while answering to no one? It should be fairly easy for such a site to go viral given the pent up demand.
Re: Amazon sellers ‘hijack’ listings to sell face masks despite new rules
#9> We use sophisticated tools, including machine learning, to combat them, and we are making it increasingly difficult for bad actors to hide. So sophisticated that some reporter for wired could find them in the top few hundred bestsellers in a few minutes with a quick visual scan. Let’s be clear: Amazon should not be censoring legal items on their platform. However, their efforts at stopping it are purely a PR matter…
They love PR speak and buzzwords. I'm still waiting on my "Amazon Executive Support" person to explain how I was sent previously opened and seemingly washed socks. How about all the other opened products I get listed as new? The fake reviews that are oh-so obvious and have been around for years without a dent?
They are top tier BS. I take advantage of them as much as I can ;) After all the stuff they've made me return or sold me as new, I don't feel bad at all.
Re: Amazon sellers ‘hijack’ listings to sell face masks despite new rules
#10> We use sophisticated tools, including machine learning, to combat them, and we are making it increasingly difficult for bad actors to hide. So sophisticated that some reporter for wired could find them in the top few hundred bestsellers in a few minutes with a quick visual scan. Let’s be clear: Amazon should not be censoring legal items on their platform. However, their efforts at stopping it are purely a PR matter…
> a quick visual scan Yeah a quick visual scan from a human is super easy to automate.
Amazon literally has a tool for this (Mechanical Turk)