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>"free with ads" I am learning to despise Amazon for this crap. As someone who still finds massive value in AMZ, they have poisoned the well and I feel that it

• ravenstine 4y ago
  Yeah I feel the same way. Though I've yet to be truly scammed by their regular storefront as others have claimed, their catalogue is becoming increasingly useless to me. Way too much crap from Alibaba being sold on there under fake sounding brand names (OFTEN IN UPPERCASE FOR SOME REASON) and with thousands of reviews that don't sound legit. At this rate of decay, I don't see how Amazon isn't destined for some kind of correction. Same goes for YouTube, despite being a very different kind of service. Their search is now virtually useless, everyone is using codewords to get around their draconian content policies, the number of ads that appear on the YouTube smart TV app is completely absurd, their web interface is full of bugs, old content is now difficult if not impossible to surface in many cases, and the overall kind of content now is repetitive and PG rated in all categories. Though I doubt that YouTube ever made a profit (or at least a sustained one), it just seems like the status quo is neither a good one nor one that can be sustained even by The Google. All of these companies seem in trouble long-term, really. The one thing Amazon really has going for it is AWS. Yeah, The Google has their own cloud stuff, but let's face it, enough people have learned their lesson that anyone in their right mind wouldn't be hosting a new web service through them.