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Does anyone else go looking on amazon because they used to have loads of stuff, but now there's just a few things over and over and over and they're not quite what you wanted. It's so full of promoted content and you keep thinking that somewhere on one of the pages there might be something new, but no, it's these same products again and again.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

In the wake of worker strikes and Amazon’s continued enshittification, I have pledged to stop buying anything from them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

That's a good idea. I should do the same. They're really annoying anyway.

[–] funkless_eck 3 points 2 days ago

kNN was a precursor to AI and is just as much slop.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Haha, I thought this was a comment on AWS at first. Where everything service is just EC2s and S3 buckets in a trench coat that all do something slightly different than another service they offer.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Which, let's be clear, is not an inherently bad thing. Most sane people don't want to reinvent the wheel. If you have a foundation that works and can easily be built off of in a reusable way the. You ultimately end up saving a lot of time and money.

Now, going back to your dig, it is true that Amazon has too many similar services, a lot of which could have just been an offering under an existing service. If you offer a certification just for memorizing what all of your services do then you may have gone too far.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Yeah, I always hated that the foundational cert (or whatever it's called) is basically just "what service is this". The worst is that at the rate things change the info doesn't stay relevant for long.

Sagemaker has literally gone through tens of iterations at this point. Hard to keep straight what it does and doesn't offer.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I spent a few days ago hunting for a EC2 service that I was being charged for. The AWS budget said it came from "EC2 Services" which yeah, could mean anything.

Started by typing EC2 then clicking every single tab to find what was turned on. I finally found the service because there was a region filter, that let me find out that I was using a EBS that I left activated when I was goofing around in another region.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Yeah, the only thing more confusing than figuring out what service best fits your need is figuring out how it's billed.

Some services will spin up eight other things and all will look like separate things from a billing perspective, if you aren't careful with tagging/managing things.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Amazon was never active in my neck of the woods, we had a local competitor. This was a bit shitty for a while, as it didn't have the same reach Amazon had.

When Amazon finally rented the market it was ok for a while and then enshittification came in.

So we still use the competitor.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Northern Europeans doing it well as usual.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Well the competitor is owned by the largest supermarket chain and they try to follow amazons buns model, so it's kinda shitty and capitalistic all the same.

But because it's smaller in scale and doesn't impact the silly chain that much it's still mildly better (think Amazon right years ago.

But for the time being it's slightly better. I think it's great that Amazon has a competitor that didn't lose out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Yeah. Monopoly corporations are awful.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Your first mistake is giving Amazon money.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

Very true. Jeff Bezos already has enough. And, like most countries, Amazon doesn't pay tax in my country through the typical shady tax dodges multinational corporations pull.

[–] southsamurai 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They do it on purpose. Makes you stay longer, increasing chances of extra sales

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] southsamurai 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Tbh, I find it a little more than mildly infuriating. Verging on very infuriating.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I found what I wanted on ebay, where the same item only appeared more than once if more than one seller was selling it. Amazon repeats the same stuff over and over and over and over.

[–] pelespirit 3 points 3 days ago

Ebay sucks though too, they'll steal your money. I will only use them as a last resort as well. I try to go directly to the manufacturer's site to get around these big ones.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

we need anti-enshitification extensions and apps for amazon and ebay, the former is even worse

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It might just be the things I go on ebay for but they've really cleaned up their site in the past ~10 years. I remember when searching for literally anything would give you results like OP's pic but I haven't seen that in years. I think i do like 80% of my online shopping there nowadays

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Today I gave up on amazon and found the item I wanted on ebay, which was much easier to browse because it showed me each product from each seller roughly once. It was so much easier. I saw the same stuff as I saw on amazon but about 80 other products too. Amazon used to be the ones with the product range, and that's how they got big. Now they've enshitified quite thoroughly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

the former is even worse

Amazon is worse than Amazon?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I've never used Amazon in my entire life (well, I've probably visited websites hosted on AWS, but that's it).

I see no reason to change that. Besides we have a pretty neat alternative in the Benelux in the form of bol.com. Loads cheaper & more local.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

i first shopped on amazon way back when it was still mostly books. they were just starting to bring in other stuff.

their web site and ui has always been shit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

But also the dont want product you, the your product want dont, and the super dont want you product for (8 pack)

All of which are low on stock.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I found that sometimes I need the right terms to find what I need. I'll search several times in rapid succession to narrow down what I want.

I wanted an oversized hoodie for my wife that didn't look like ass and didn't choke her.

Started with oversized hoodie, oversized woman's hoodie, oversized hoodie deep neck, finally oversized hoodie v neck was what I wanted. Then I scrolled a few pages to see the options.

It's really bad though when looking for memory or storage. 1TB nvme? That works. 1TB SSD? Nope. 1TB SSD SATA mostly works, just have to make sure it's ACTUALLY 1TB.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

For computer stuff I just use newegg. The filters are great in most categories and once you find something you can search for that specific product on Amazon to compare prices.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I love trying to search for specific products. "Oh, I see you're searching for a specific item from a specific name brand. Let me show you everything but that name brand. But first, let me show you stuff that also isn't that item first. Enjoy."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I abandoned Newegg because of all the negative comments about not being able to return stuff.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Member when Bezos wanted to solve product reviews to make their search work better? Some time ago, Amazon just gave up and surrendered to the hellscape it has become.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Someone wrote the code that puts the same listing four times per page.

[–] mindbleach 1 points 3 days ago

Slideshow of some shit you don't want.

Slideshow of some shit you don't want.

Slideshow of some shit you don't want.

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