Amazon keeps trying to troll US Congress members in perplexing new PR strategy

Post by uniqueid » Sun, Mar 28, 2021, 6:48 AM UTC

BugWatch wrote: post #20

supergirl wrote: post #17

unrelated: the cookie notice om theverge can’t possibly be legal. it only offer I Agree and if you want opt out then they explain how to disable cookies in the browser

I have recently started writing down a (private) list, provisionally called "cookie assholes" ("monsters" would be too cute), for those of-special-note entries like this, with dark patterns and similar crap, potentially with eventual intent of reporting the offenders to the GDPR enforcing bodies. Maybe a community-driven auto-block/auto-reject/auto-hide rules - 'cause I'm sick and tired of being expected to sit down…

  provisionally called "cookie assholes" ("monsters" would be too cute)

Post by tlibert » Tue, Mar 30, 2021, 9:42 PM UTC

jfengel wrote: post #22

airhead969 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What does that unclear language mean? You didn't pay for them or didn't make them?

It sounds like it means "there were a few things that I still used Amazon for, but now that my account is locked I don't even do that". They've stopped buying from Amazon altogether.