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Northern Europeans doing it well as usual.

When I look for electronic stuff, that's exactly what happens. It turns out some of it is good, some of it is awful, but there's absolutely no way to tell.

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

Exactly. Amazon are the pushiest of the dodgy pushy salesperson.

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.

That one drives me up the wall. It happened to me recently, but on something a bit more mainstream - a spanner set. No, I don't need another spanner set! Seriously, who buys more than one spanner set ever? Oh, and sometimes I search for an item, don't buy it, but then I'm offered great deals on similar products every time I log in for the rest of time.

They're not spending ANYTHING like 50% on the tech work. Reminder: one of the most profitable companies on the globe. The huge profit comes from the HUGE gap between their costs and their income. So no, it's not proportionate at all, and it's gullible for anyone to pay them to reduce ads when they could block them for free.

You don't think it's a little hypocritical to call people stealing when they're just skipping ads automatically? You see a huge moral gulf between clicking a button and having a piece of software click the button? You pirated a bunch of stuff when you were a teen and now you're on your moral high horse over someone blocking an ad or 300?

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.

Thank you very much indeed, knowledgeable internet stranger.

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.

I'm guessing you feel like a bit of a mug for paying your hard earned money to faceless mega wealthy corporation so you want to believe that people who skip the ads without needlessly paying Google are stealing.

Well, they're not. They're just skipping ads.

So annoying.

And sometimes the filters are completely irrelevant. You're searching for correction fluid and the filters say 1Gb, 2Gb, 4Gb-512Gb, 520Mb.

Oh wow, that sounds fantastic. What adblocker is that, and how do you configure it?

In related news, I initially misread the post title as "I am not a boy".

Unless something drastic happens, for the next twenty to thirty years of the Supreme Court, I think it depends whether the candidate is a Republican or not.

Does that make you metrosexual?

Matt Gaetz is not reasonable.

And you want to make other people feel guilty for skipping ads because it's easy for them to get your experience without paying uber-wealthy corporations, so you try to make out that they stole something? Get off your high horse. Your giving would be far more beneficial if it went to a charity instead of Google.