Maybe not consciously. But if you regularly use the internet, there's a 100% chance you regularly use something that's at least partially hosted on Amazon Web Services.

That's the biggest underlying issue with Amazon: they've got their fingers in every pie they can find. And they get tax breaks and government handouts to do it.

bold statement. I guarantee you have used Amazon, just not willingly or knowingly.

I really wish there were decent alternatives. It's one of the few places left with decent return polices, since it's nearly impossible to go to a store and try on affordable clothes or other things that need to be interacted with before deciding to keep. The only stores these days seem to be expensive stuff or they're small and only sell the most expensive stuff the store offers, the websites have the less expensive stuff, but return policies suck or you have to keep going to the store to return stuff (if you're lucky enough to have one local with all of the malls and shopping centers basically barren) rather than just trying on a bunch in a changing room and putting it back on the hanger. Same for many other products. I'd be lost without Amazon, but I wasn't lost before Amazon, just that they and Walmart, etc., destroyed everything else.