Amazon has a patent to keep people from comparison shopping in stores

Re:Amazon has a patent to keep people from comparison shoppi... by djrogers on Friday June 16, 2017 @02:15PM (#14571370)

FTA: "When that happens, Amazon may take one of several actions. It may block access to the competitor’s site, preventing customers from viewing comparable products from rivals. It might redirect the customer to Amazon’s own site or to other, Amazon-approved sites."

How is blocking and redirecting traffic NOT tampering?

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Re:Amazon has a patent to keep people from comparison shoppi... by kbutler on Friday June 16, 2017 @02:30PM (#14571516)

It's standard operating procedure for network filters - redirecting inappropriate content requests to a "this site is not allowed" page.

As long as you're not being deceptive (e.g., inserting your own content, changing other content, changing prices), blocking and redirecting is probably fine.

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Re:Amazon has a patent to keep people from comparison shoppi... by mrob on Friday June 16, 2017 @02:31PM (#14571529)

I think it's reasonable to think "tampering" means surreptitious modification of traffic. If they're up-front about what they're doing then it's just the cost of using their service.

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