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Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, lawsuit claims (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 1 point 2 years ago (4 children)

I don't have a lot of inner details about amazon but I do know that they have peaked already as far as retail goes. I don't know when, I just know its happened already.

Amazon is no longer any of the following:

  1. The cheapest deal
  2. Filled with reliable reviews
  3. Filled with trustworthy companies

And on top of that, their product search page is to the point where not even the advertisers are having a good time. The end users (buyers) stopped having a useful interface a while before that.

Its easier now for me to avoid amazon simply because they aren't the best deal by nearly any metric any more.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (3 children)

    I see. Well, my point still stands; we're choosing amongst shit anyway

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    True, most global brands are garbage, but I do see a lot of stuff locally thats sprung up to fill interesting niches. I still think the community of people who say "fuck big business, and fuck endless greed" is a growing bunch so I'm hopeful.

    It helps for me to watch what the generations after me are doing, and they are doing a fine job fighting for progress in my opinion.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    I don't see much of a "fuck corporate greed" around me. And there are some things are much better overseas, like cheap IOT gizmos. Purchasing a cheap relay is much easier from the bigger brands on Aliexpress than from a local manufacturer

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Yeah I think probably me saying "big business" is overly broad.

    I almost always use that to mean big companies that use their size unfairly in the marketplace, and I'm not just talking about how production of scale works.

    I do think that we need to really open up the global market, this competition by country is sort of ridiculous, but I'm not going to pretend I understand it all enough to prescribe a solution.

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