Amazon’s search is so transparently corrupt and useless, I can search the exact product I want to buy in quotes and it will show me an entire page or more of other products it wants me to buy before the result I was looking for.
> As Tim Wu points out, the money Amazon makes from payola exceeds the advertising revenue received by all the newspapers in the world by 300%. Alongside that number and its implication for the news media, Jeff Bezos buying the Washington Post and turning its editorial page into a sewer of shitty Ayn Rand fanfic barely registers.
These people are so far removed from reality that you could easily call these social circles a (more or less spontaneously organized) cult, and they have to warp the world around them to serve them even more. Buying twitter, buying newspapers. They are telling us that the "others" are brainwashing us.
> This is pure enshittification. Of all the ingenious, innovative ways that Amazon came up with to make money, the most successful is a scam that makes everything you buy more expensive even as it reduces the profits of the companies you're buying from. It's another example of corruption: a system of concentrated gains and diffuse losses – and once again, it's the most profitable thing Amazon does.
Bezos isn't an entrepreneur, because an honest business owner wants to be proud about their own work.
I love Cory Doctorow’s work, but man is it hard to get through sometimes. Not because it’s bad, but because it’s depressing.
Wow, amazing article. I hope it gets the attention it deserves.
Amazon making it difficult to compare price per unit is why sites like https://diskprices.com and https://lifepo4prices.com and all the other clones are so useful.
Amazon’s search is so transparently corrupt and useless, I can search the exact product I want to buy in quotes and it will show me an entire page or more of other products it wants me to buy before the result I was looking for.
Well, that’s one hell of a website
There should be a double t in ‘enshittification.’