It really feels as though Amazon's greatest fear is the idea that you might search for something and get no results. If we show you BS you explicitly said you a

It really feels as though Amazon's greatest fear is the idea that you might search for something and get no results. If we show you BS you explicitly said you aren't looking for then we're giving up the opportunity of tricking you into buying it anyways. A bit ago I was searching for toothpaste that doesn't have mint in it. This is already a pain at a brick retailer, but I figured Amazon's huge product variety would help. Turns out their search is actively malicious to negative terms because otherwise I could buy just the one thing and be done with my shopping. I should probably set up a similar homebrew search to get around this. Purchase history is far less important to me because I don't buy much from Amazon.