Haus@kbin.social to News@lemmy.world · 11 months agoJeff Bezos urged Amazon to flood search results with junk ads, FTC allegeswww.cnbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up1296arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up1294arrow-down1external-linkJeff Bezos urged Amazon to flood search results with junk ads, FTC allegeswww.cnbc.comHaus@kbin.social to News@lemmy.world · 11 months agomessage-square19fedilinkfile-text
Amazon's ads strategy helped pump its profits while steering shoppers to higher-priced goods, the agency alleges.
minus-squareHakFoo@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up17·11 months agoExcept Aliexpress is still fun. Let me spend 6 hours looking at slightly different screwdrivers and keycaps and dodgy anime merch and ICs that haven't been used since 1988. Way better than 84 pages of KWJIBO brand home goods.
minus-squareGentriFriedRice@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·11 months agoI went to multiple hardware, plumbing stores, and Amazon but only found my obscure bathtub faucet to hose fitting on aliexpress for less than a dollar
Except Aliexpress is still fun.
Let me spend 6 hours looking at slightly different screwdrivers and keycaps and dodgy anime merch and ICs that haven't been used since 1988. Way better than 84 pages of KWJIBO brand home goods.
I went to multiple hardware, plumbing stores, and Amazon but only found my obscure bathtub faucet to hose fitting on aliexpress for less than a dollar