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‘Has flat buttocks,’ ‘cusses when scared’: Amazon keeps shockingly specific customer profiles
www.fastcompany.com/91619118/amazon-shopping-customer-profiles-about-you-page-shockingly-specific-how-to-see-view-your-profileposted in Technology
‘Has flat buttocks,’ ‘cusses when scared’: Amazon keeps shockingly specific customer profiles
www.fastcompany.com/91619118/amazon-shopping-customer-profiles-about-you-page-shockingly-specific-how-to-see-view-your-profileReplying to @zarkanian@sh.itjust.works
Why are so many of you still shopping with Amazon? Genuinely I do not understand it.
Replying to @IamMoonPie@lemmy.world
Because Amazon wiped out what Walmart and other big box stores didn’t kill in the first round. Sometimes there’s literally no place else to get what I need, not even order it in to a local store. On top of that, Google search for products is so wrecked that the choices it returns are amazon links, or links to websites that also provide amazon links to the same products. It’s fucked up.
(FWIW I do buy local or direct from businesses other than Amazon when possible, but it’s simply not possible all the time)
Replying to @RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
So what you’re saying is, you shop on Amazon because it’s easy… yeahhh that’s not a good enough excuse.
Replying to @IamMoonPie@lemmy.world
Sure bud. I’m not here to drive 9 hours and two states over to pick up something I need, if that’s even an option, just to satisfy whatever BS arbitrary metric you have in your head.
Replying to @RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
Or… and here me out here, maybe just do a little more research and purchase online from companies that AREN’T Amazon.
I get we all want shopping to be easier, but that’s no excuse to fund the facist machine that is Amazon.
I’m going to hold your hand when I say this because I know this will be hard to hear, but it’s not just about you and your “convenience” buddy.
I’m disabled and can’t drive anywhere, and I somehow manage to figure it out. Sometimes it takes a while, but I can do it.
What could you possibly be shopping for that’s only on Amazon? And if said company is only on Amazon— why would you want to support them anyway?
All I’m saying is, if an idiot like me can do it, so can you.
Replying to @IamMoonPie@lemmy.world
I feel llke you really need to watch the show, The Good Place. After you finish it, come back to your comments and you’ll understand why I said this.
Replying to @Psythik@lemmy.world
nah fuck that, the episode you’re talking about is where they lost me.
“There’s no ethical consumption under capitalism… therefore we’re going to rewrite the rules of the cosmos to give you a pass for it, and now you’re not obliged to fight it any more. You can go back to being happy little consumers now, all your guilt is absolved. Fremulon. NBCUniversal, a Comcast company.”
Replying to @skisnow@lemmy.ca
I’m not talking about a specific episode—I’m way too ADHD for that—rather the message of the show in general. So knock it off with the strawman argument.
Reread my reply to the other person, and you’ll understand the point I’m trying to make. Capitalism makes it impossible to be a perfect person, so until the system changes, do the best you can in the meantime.
Replying to @skisnow@lemmy.ca
I’m not talking about a specific episode—I’m way too ADHD for that—rather the message of the show in general. So knock it off with the strawman argument.
Reread my reply to the other person, and you’ll understand the point I’m trying to make. Capitalism makes it impossible to be a perfect person, so until the system changes, do the best you can in the meantime.