Amazon has done something similar as well. When you search an item on it it now defaults to running it in their AI and then you need to click “show results” if you don’t wanna see the preview.
they need to be sued for deceptive marketing practices to be honest. The ways it tries to sneak you resubscribing to it without your knowledge is super deceptive. My gramp has accidentally subscribed at least 4 times now when he goes to place a normal order they have like 3 different locations that toggle on where you need to keep telling them no you don’t want a free trial, and then we don’t actually find out about it till months after because he is very old fashion and doesn’t always check things.
And even when you get past that, it takes some scrolling (or page-mangling with browser add-ons) to get past the sponsored garbage. They insert some of that in the actual results without telling you, too, I discovered today while doing another junk cleanup pass. I now have over thirty “kill anything matching this xpath” and two or three “set the height of this to zero pixels” directives for Amazon, making it one of the worst sites I can still be arsed to deal with at all.
Amazon has done something similar as well. When you search an item on it it now defaults to running it in their AI and then you need to click “show results” if you don’t wanna see the preview.
Boycotting Amazon is easy and fun.
This infuriates me. I don’t give a fuck what your AI says. I’m also enraged because I canceled prime and they decided to renew it anyways
they need to be sued for deceptive marketing practices to be honest. The ways it tries to sneak you resubscribing to it without your knowledge is super deceptive. My gramp has accidentally subscribed at least 4 times now when he goes to place a normal order they have like 3 different locations that toggle on where you need to keep telling them no you don’t want a free trial, and then we don’t actually find out about it till months after because he is very old fashion and doesn’t always check things.
And even when you get past that, it takes some scrolling (or page-mangling with browser add-ons) to get past the sponsored garbage. They insert some of that in the actual results without telling you, too, I discovered today while doing another junk cleanup pass. I now have over thirty “kill anything matching this xpath” and two or three “set the height of this to zero pixels” directives for Amazon, making it one of the worst sites I can still be arsed to deal with at all.