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‘Has flat buttocks,’ ‘cusses when scared’: Amazon keeps shockingly specific customer profiles (www.fastcompany.com)
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[–] 3 points 4 hours ago (5 children)

Honestly I wish I didn't. I don't have a google account. Don't have any Meta accounts. Don't have accounts for basically anything I'm not functionally REQUIRED to have (banking for example). But Amazon is hard to avoid. I do a lot of buying in person, but in person shopping is just horrible these days. You need to find something specific and you are screwed. I do try to find other places online to get something when I can but a lot of times I just have to fall back to amazon. Maybe part of it is just the area I'm in though. Tons of the more specialty stores here have closed down. We don't even have an electronics store anymore after Best Buy closed.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 hours ago (4 children)

    I've had the privilege to live in economically robust (relatively speaking lol) environments, which has helped a lot in my mission to avoid them. I've been able to do it but I've also been lucky. Keep the fire alive, keep searching for alternatives. But damn do I feel for your situation, not even having a basic electronics type store is pretty rough.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

    Well there's a walmart that has electronics stuff but at that point you may as well just buy from Amazon anyway lmao

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  • [–] 1 point 2 hours ago (1 child)

    There is always Newegg or B&H.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 hours ago

    I've used Newegg but never heard of B&H what is that? Newegg is good for PC parts but not really for other things. Like RV electronics for example. Altho you can find some of that on other sites too. I do try to diversify when I can and not support the monopoly. One of the main issues I've found is just shipping. Even if you can find something somewhere else sometimes it'll take a month to get there, or it's out of stock, or something like that. Especially more recently. I even had something happen one time where I tried to buy from LattePanda on their site and my bank BLOCKED the transaction and wouldn't let me buy from them directly because they were an "untrusted" vendor lol. But I was allowed to buy the exact same thing 2nd hand from Amazon.

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