Why do people buy stuff from a creepy company like that?

Because its the biggest and most visible one that everyone uses. And because so many Amazon shoppers are Prime Members anyway, as the cost of not being a Prime Member makes it functionally a requirement.

Couldn’t you just stop by at the local whatever shop on your way home?

How much would I pay not to spend an extra 30-60min fighting traffic and waiting in long lines? In that sense, Prime is a steal.

The presumption is that the brick and mortar store is not bad. Yes, they are bad too. Maybe just as bad, maybe not as bad, but they are no saints.

Options are limited for shopping, so we don't have much choice. The reason I buy from Amazon is that essentially I didn't want to shop at any local store any longer, they have bad polices AND they treat me like crap - not a valued customer.

Along came Amazon and I started buying from them. Then there was a big boo-hoo that ecommerce was killing their brick and mortar store sales. No sir, you were killing the sales but now I have somewhere else to go.

Amazon is horrible for many reasons, but pricing and customer service is not one of them. There's a silver lining to that storm cloud.

For a lot of the cheap stuff on Amazon, the price is literally double at a local brick and mortar retailer. Phone chargers, kitchen utensils, towels, cleaning products are high-margin examples that come to mind. Plus, of course, your time and gas money to grab it. Some people also struggle with impulse purchases they may grab while shopping in store. Its easy to see why people continue to throw money at creepy Bezos and just wait for shit to appear on their porch.

For all its very real shittiness, you will likely find that Amazon ships faster, has lower prices, has a better selection, and much easier returns than other online shops. This almost entirely the result of their massive monopolistic power. I don't begrudge people that are squeezed for time and money from trying to save either, but Amazon needs to be broken up.

"noticing patterns" is a right-wing dog whistle about jews because they think jews orchestrate society and that they are 'noticing this'.

The usual meme is "stop noticing things" because they have pointed out something they think is the fault of jews, like chemtrails or whatever. In this example, there could be a jewish board member of a plane company and they also believe chemtrails are real so they are 'noticing' the supposed connection.

It is similar to the (((( )))) dog whistle, if you are familiar.

Examples can be found on the 'noticing' tag on ifunny https://ifunny.co/tags/noticing

This has nothing to do with dark patterns.

Dude what are you on about lol. Wikipedia on dark patterns

Based on the number of partners some companies seem to have, they are far more promiscuous than most humans.

Oh I remember those thoroughly cursed menus where you have to manually disable 256 cookies one by one. Haven’t seen those in a while though, so I guess some piece of legislation is doing its job.

That's actually a nightmare

Who has time for this shit? Just for a stupid article?

Won't using reader mode ( if your browser supports it ) help you avoid this ? or those browser add-ons like " I don't care about cookies "

Pretty sure EU law says that the buttons should be identical

With a heading "We care about your privacy".

🙄

I'm honestly surprised no-one has built an extension to automatically opt out of them, or at least the major cookie providers interfaces.

I realise there are many extensions which outright block cookies, etc; I'm meaning specifically the annoying dialogues you describe

That's what my mother does because she's senile.

Having the dialogue is a good thing.