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Written by AI?
The briefest of looks at their comment history suggest they are simply helpful.
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Amazon cancels my account after exposing account lockout for “racist doorbell” [video]
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#72Re: Amazon cancels my account after exposing account lockout for “racist doorbell” [video]
#73So Amazon wrongly accuses some random dude of racism after he says "Excuse me how can i help you" from their robotic doorbell, then bricks all of his amazon smarthome products remotely, then bans this man from their associates program for even making a video about it on youtube after 10 years. Are we living inside of the movie demolition man now? I absolutely hate large corporations. Racism off course is never ok, bu…
The Chinese point system is exactly what this reminds me of. It is ironic that unrestrained capitalism actually ends in a variant of communism where it are the corporations, rather than the party, that rule society.
Re: Amazon cancels my account after exposing account lockout for “racist doorbell” [video]
#74Summary: The YouTuber had his Amazon affiliate account canceled after 7 years without warning or evidence of wrongdoing. The reason given was that purchases made through his links were for personal use or made by friends and family, which he denies. He finds the timing suspicious as it came a week after he made a video criticizing Amazon for canceling a customer's account for a racist doorbell claim. He argues that t…
It's not just Amazon. All big tech companies have this "trigger happy" approach to closing down accounts. Especially payment companies. I believe we need to pass down new consumer laws to protect the people. We pretty much rely on their services and they have no accountability.
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Louis Rossmann is a well-known figure in the maker/hacker spaces. He has been making top-notch instructional videos for a long time. Amazon is one of the largest tech companies in the world. Amazon's hostile relationship to their users and abuse of their monopoly position are important, frequent topics of conversation (especially on HN). That such an abusive action happened to someone like Rossmann means it can happe…
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Written by AI?
I haven't watched the video and was very happy to have a summary. What makes you question it was written by an AI?
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No. Even if you work for a Fortune 500 company (which 80% of the workforce doesn't), your CEO likely isn't a billionaire unless they also founded the company. The vast majority of these companies aren't lead by the only 770 billionaires in the US. Even making 15 million a year (typical Fortune 500 CEO total compensation), it would take a long time to hit a billion.
So this depends on your definition of "working for": Are you working for the CEO or for the owner of the company?
It still not even close to the majority of Americans no matter your definition. The vast majority of the stock market isn't held by billionaires either. The total net worth of all US billionaires is ~5 trillion and the stock market is worth ~40 trillion.
Even if you start counting anyone that works for a company even partially owned by a billionaire, about half of us employees work for small businesses: https://www.forbes.com/advisor/business/small-business-stati...
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Because affiliate marketing is cesspool of scammers doing scams at scale. I say this as someone who's measured marketing performance of these channels over the years.
That's what I meant with "I suspect that it is because companies are so afraid of getting scammed". What is the solution? How can we build trust between publishers and advertisers?
Individually negotiated deals. If marketers can negotiate deals for individual youtube videos, they can certainly negotiate deals for individual affiliate websites.
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"In a YouTube video titled "Amazon cancels my account after exposing account lockout for 'racist doorbell'," the speaker shares his experience of Amazon cancelling his seven-year-old affiliate program account, claiming he violated their operating agreement. Despite using the same links to promote products on his YouTube channel for seven years and earning meagre profits, Amazon cancelled his account without any reaso…
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#80He should consider lucky amazon cancelled his account for him, most people seem to struggle cancelling their amazon accounts.