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Kindle X-Ray kind of does this https://goodereader.com/blog/kindle/what-is-x-ray-for-the-amazon-kindle https://goodereader.com/blog/kindle/what-is-x-ray-for-the

• ornornor 3y ago
  Yeah but then you have to contribute making Bezos even richer.
  • bamboozled 3y ago
    Bezos getting richer? Get used to it.
    • ornornor 3y ago
      I don’t have to contribute to it, as much as I can help it.
      • pyinstallwoes 3y ago
        What do you use instead of Amazon?
        • ornornor 3y ago
          Anything else. I live in Switzerland and prefer to use galaxus, Migros, inter discount, mueller, foletti, or buy second hand. Absolutely anything I can to not buy from Amazon even if the alternative is 10–15% more expensive.
          • bamboozled 3y ago
            What do you hate so much about Amazon that makes the alternatives so much better ? Genuinely ?
            • ornornor 3y ago
              What's not to hate? Exploiting workers, union busting, tax evasion, waste, pollution...
              • bamboozled 3y ago
                I (sadly) don’t think much of this is isolated to Amazon. I think it’s shareholders that demand this of most corporations. I honestly think the packaging my Amazon stuff comes in is much more eco friendly than the actual product packaging itself.
                • ornornor 3y ago
                  The packaging is a very small part of it. I’m talking about the logistics, destroying/incinerating returns, shipping whatever commingled crap and then having insane return rates (which are then destroyed)… not to mention the societal issues like systemically crushing workers rights, hiding accidents to cheat on workplace safety, etc. It’s so bad that Amazon was in the news a few months ago for churning through too many people and running out of suckers willing to be abused by them who haven’t been already and quit.
              • Turing_Machine 3y ago
                Can you give us some evidence that Galaxus warehouse workers are somehow less "exploited" than Amazon's Swiss warehouse workers? Or is this a deal like complaining about Apple supposedly using slave labor, while blithely ignoring the fact that every other computer and cell phone comes out of essentially the same Chinese factories? If anything, the people who crank out low-end Android phones probably get paid less than Apple's workers. I'm nearly 100% certain they don't get paid more. I'm skeptical that Galaxus warehouses are worker's paradises, because I did a few stints at warehouse work as a youngster. You know what? Warehouse work sucks, and it sucked long before Amazon came along.
                • ornornor 3y ago
                  There are no Amazon warehouses in Switzerland. There is actually no Amazon Switzerland. It’s all drop shipped from elsewhere in Europe because the conditions are more favorable to Amazon there I suppose. I never said galaxus was a workers paradise. It’s still work. But work at regular conditions, not the exploitative ones Amazon is famous for. Did you seriously never hear about the amount of workplace accidents rate at Amazon vs other companies? The people who died in the warehouse collapsing a few months ago because there was a hurricane and employees were not allowed to go shelter? The workers peeing in bottles to avoid bathroom breaks and keeping their grueling per hour quotas? The union squashing efforts by Amazon? The notoriously bad working conditions at Amazon (warehouse but also software)? I’ve never heard that about other Swiss companies I purchase from. It’s probably not paradise. It’s still not Amazon level of hell and exploitation. On a practical level, Amazon quality is shit, you get damaged or used returns sold as new, returning stuff means sending it to Slovakia out of pocket and waiting weeks for it to be processed (or returned to you because Amazon never accepted delivery), then fighting to be refunded, sometimes stuff gets stolen in your return parcels by the mail service… I really can’t see a point to undergo all this BS and feed Amazon to save 10–20% on the odd thing I buy and can also find from domestic retailers.
  • rakoo 3y ago
    Contrasted to making Sam Altman even richer ? Or Sergei and Larry even richer ? I don't see the difference. Not meaning it's ok to go the Amazon way, but that it's not ok to use any of those
    • ornornor 3y ago
      And I personally don't use gmail, block all ads on YT, etc. I avoid all these when practical and possible, rather than throwing my arms up in the air. Doesn't mean I never use their services, but I do my best not to.
      • rakoo 3y ago
        Oh I do agree and I wish more people did like you do, which is my point: instead of discussing what billionaire ego island gets richer, let's just not use their tools and discuss together what we want as a society. If the cost of AI is higher than its benefits, then let's not use it. From any company.
      • Zetobal 3y ago
        The only thing you achieve by doing that is making your own life harder but principles right?
        • ornornor 3y ago
          Not that much harder for me really. You do you though.
        • dayjaby 3y ago
          How on earth does 1 minute of your time to install an adblocker make your life harder?
  • bko 3y ago
    He made a product you find useful. Even if he doesn’t need to be rewarded more, he’s proven himself an effective allocator of capital. Give him a dollar and he’ll likely use it to develop some product you’ll enjoy in the future as well.
    • ornornor 3y ago
      That’s presumptuous. He didn’t make a product I find useful, and a dollar more he makes will be used to squeeze a tiny bit more out of those he employs and/or out of society for his own benefit. I’m not enabling that as much as I can.