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Re:New Parents Complain Amazon Baby-Registry Ads Are Deceptive by myroon5 on Saturday December 01, 2018 @05:04PM (#18579261)
Even after reading the article and specifically searching for the "sponsored" text, it took me minutes to find it in the screenshot. Extremely deceptive
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Re:New Parents Complain Amazon Baby-Registry Ads Are Deceptive by cpeterso on Saturday December 01, 2018 @11:50PM (#18580868)
I had the same experience. I was scanning the Amazon wish list page knowing what I was looking for and finally found it with CTRL+F. This is unethical design. :\
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Re:New Parents Complain Amazon Baby-Registry Ads Are Deceptive by zaroth on Sunday December 02, 2018 @08:50AM (#18582292)
“One weird trick... the FTC hates it when companies do this”

r/unethical/illegal.

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