FTC can’t afford to fight Amazon’s allegedly deceptive sign-ups after DOGE cuts
FTC says credit card charges are capped at $1, amid other budget shortfalls.
I barely use Amazon, it's just 90% AliExpress stock at huge markup anyway, plus more importantly they're evil. I do seem to have prime though, which I use to order something maybe every other month when it's urgent for work. Thing is I'm not signed up for prime, it just activated when I linked an audible account to my business account years ago. I do use audible, to the limit of the credits anyway. So I've been kinda torn for ages and can't bring myself to cancel as my old audible subscription seems to be giving me prime somehow for much less than prime is to sign up.
I just convince myself I'm playing the system...
Amazon fucking sucks for me now. Every fucking purchase (which is getting rare and rarer) I get asked to join prime.
There is no "don't ask me again". Every fucking time I have to select "Not now".
I've come close to writing a plugin to help you skip these ads.
Why not avoid amazon completely or as much as possible?
I already am. At this point, if I'm buying something on Amazon, it's because I cannot find a comparable product elsewhere.
I'm even paying more at other retailers. I haven't run the numbers but before I cancelled prime 4 years ago how, I easily spent thousands. Last year, I think I spent a few hundred.
This year, my goal is less than 100.
Lots of small and even midsize sellers are basically forced into use Amazon, because if they don't, then they don't exist. So in some cases you literally cannot order the thing anywhere else.
I do, the only thing I buy off Amazon now is Zeolite mineral cat litter pellets. There's simply no supplier in Canada, but I try sourcing from Ebay first.
It sucks this specific cat litter isn't more popular. It's crazy how superior to clay/paper/wood/crystal whatever. Both in annual costs and cleanliness.
I've come close to writing a plugin to help you skip these ads.
a few ublock rules would probably do the job. it's possible to even run premade scriptlets to fix up a website
Looks like buying the Washington Post paid off then
ticket closed as “by design”
Not like the FTC did much to begin with
They were in the middle of anti trust lawsuits where they were going to force google to sell off chrome.
Lina Khan had like 5 antitrust suits open against the biggest corporations in the US.
She was appointed by Biden and fired by Trump
This article is about a law they just made to make it as easy to cancel services as it is to sign up.
So yeah they've been doing a lot recently
