Amazon Closing AmazonSmile
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Amazon Closing AmazonSmile
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#2There were seemingly odd hoops for customers to jump through to have their purchases qualify for Smile. Didn't type in the 'smile' URL? Too bad, no donation for you. One of the oddest was requiring push notifications in order for mobile purchases to count (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21233815).
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#3This honestly infuriates me. Thanks for raising the cost of prime while squandering any reason to shop with you.
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#4There were seemingly odd hoops for customers to jump through to have their purchases qualify for Smile. Didn't type in the 'smile' URL? Too bad, no donation for you. One of the oddest was requiring push notifications in order for mobile purchases to count ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21233815 ).
They wanted you to turn on push on mobile so they could pollute your Lock Screen with ads. I did it and promptly set iOS to deliver them silently because it got really annoying, but it was an easy way for the EFF to get some money from purchases I was making anyway.
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#5There were seemingly odd hoops for customers to jump through to have their purchases qualify for Smile. Didn't type in the 'smile' URL? Too bad, no donation for you. One of the oddest was requiring push notifications in order for mobile purchases to count ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21233815 ).
I would often forget to type "smile" when searching for stuff, but then I'd just add to cart, close the window, and go to my cart via smile. That seemed to work.
But I think we can all see this for what it is — belt tightening. Will they increase other philanthropic activities to the tune of what they were previously giving away via Smile? I would be very, very surprised if so.
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#6Well, that's unfortunate. I've been using Chrome redirector extension and all my Amazon orders were automatically smile-eligible, with Signal Foundation receiving all of it. This was probably the easiest, most hassle-free and cheapest (as in - free) way to support organizations.
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#7There were seemingly odd hoops for customers to jump through to have their purchases qualify for Smile. Didn't type in the 'smile' URL? Too bad, no donation for you. One of the oddest was requiring push notifications in order for mobile purchases to count ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21233815 ).
I've personally used chrome extension "Smile Always". It automatically converts all amazon links to amazon smile links.
This is sad. I am currently at $417.30 in donations to my local charity. Amazon is in denial if they think this hasnt had an impact.
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#8Amazon actively made choices to prevent purchases from contributing towards Smile donations. You had to type the URL and make the purchase from smile.amazon.com. When they say that the program has not grown to create the impact that they had originally hoped, it is a complete fabrication. It did not grow because they made choices to prevent it.
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#9There were seemingly odd hoops for customers to jump through to have their purchases qualify for Smile. Didn't type in the 'smile' URL? Too bad, no donation for you. One of the oddest was requiring push notifications in order for mobile purchases to count ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21233815 ).
They wanted you to turn on push on mobile so they could pollute your Lock Screen with ads. I did it and promptly set iOS to deliver them silently because it got really annoying, but it was an easy way for the EFF to get some money from purchases I was making anyway.
Yep, i was pretty pissed when they started that
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#10> All US charities have received $400,026,236.70 as of December 2022.
$400 million in donations to charities and Amazon has the gall to say "the program has not grown to create the impact that we had originally hoped."