Just wanted to check some user reviews for a serie, now IMDB forces me to create an account. Such bullshit to read some reviews. No fucking way. Fuck corporate enshittification. Fuck IMDB. Fuck Amazon.
Just wanted to check some user reviews for a serie, now IMDB forces me to create an account. Such bullshit to read some reviews. No fucking way. Fuck corporate enshittification. Fuck IMDB. Fuck Amazon.
But they already have your info and habits, that’s all pretty easy to gather with ip logs and cookies. They want even more, and they want you to have to ask them to delete it
That may well be so, but I have no intention of making things even easier for them.
Amazon already knows everything about you from your buying habits, down to menstrual cycles and toilet cleaning. What’s your favourite films on top of it?
(I hate Amazon, finally deleted my decades old IMDb account a while back. Now if only I could rid myself of Amazon… They’ve not fulfilled a single order for me correctly since 2020 so it’s not even the ease that counts any more… One day!)
Do it now. You will not regret it. There are alternatives for everything. Including just doing less online shopping.
Preach! For sure, been cutting down as much as possible. It helps that prices are thru the roof and I don’t need a lot.
I’ve always been a major thrifter, almost everything I own is second hand or hand me down, but I also happen to enjoy collecting, which is where the online element sometimes comes in.
Don’t get me wrong, I’ve only ordered from Amazon less than a dozen times, never had Prime, and most of my purchases have always been local.
I honestly love that folks are trying to wean off the toxic teat that is US technocracy. I can jive with it.
Almost anything you can find on Amazon, you can also find on Ebay. And sometimes Ebay is actually cheaper.
As if that’s not a scummy company and Omidyar isn’t a complete POS
americans LOL
Yea I wouldn’t consider eBay to be a viable alternative here.
The collapse of brick and mortar specialty stores in favor of online shopping has left a lot of people with few alternatives, and fewer still after Amazon came along and wiped out a lot of online stores. Unless you can find something locally, you’re usually stuck using some big tech platform or other. eBay isn’t ideal, but if it’s between that and Amazon, I’d pick eBay.
Yeah the lack of alternatives is real in many places around the world. A lot of it is just terrifying, dizzying monopolization. I don’t luckily have that issue, but it is undeniable.
LOL stop crying when you still support them.
If you don’t like the discussion, you can skip it :) I think it’s better to vocalize the issue so we can look at it together.
I personally boycotted Amazon for several years around the 2020s before resorting to purchases I felt I needed and couldn’t get elsewhere.
After being burned so many times, I’ve certainly reconsidered my wants and needs overall - if Amazon is the only way, do I need it at all?
If you don’t think that’s anything, I don’t know what to tell ya.
I’m sorry but I feel that’s a weak excuse.
Especially if you say you only want to quit now because you don’t like their service.
I see this a lot with americans, they have little motivation or conviction.
The political situation is a good example.
They can barely get themselves to do a half-assed one day strike.
While in Europe we strike for days and burn the streets fif they even think about doing a fraction of the shit your regime does.
The No Kings BS, not buying from Wallmart for a day and other embarrassing and futile acts will not do anything.
You have a mentality problem.
And it’s only going to get worse until you all grow a spine.
I wish you good luck (sorry if it sounds hard but it needs to be said)