Haus@kbin.social to News@lemmy.world · 2 years agoJeff Bezos urged Amazon to flood search results with junk ads, FTC allegeswww.cnbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square17fedilinkarrow-up1289arrow-down13file-textcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.world
arrow-up1286arrow-down1external-linkJeff Bezos urged Amazon to flood search results with junk ads, FTC allegeswww.cnbc.comHaus@kbin.social to News@lemmy.world · 2 years agomessage-square17fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.world
Amazon’s ads strategy helped pump its profits while steering shoppers to higher-priced goods, the agency alleges.
minus-squareHakFoo@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up16·2 years 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-up4·2 years 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