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Re:Jeff Bezos has returned to day-to-day management of Amazon by Someone1234 on Thursday April 23, 2020 @10:56AM (#22956714)
They also removed customer-based recommendations and replaced them with paid ads.

Two examples:

- Search results used to be order-able by popularity, but now only "featured" aka who pays the most.

- "Customers also purchased" or "Customers also viewed" boxes on item pages now replaced by sponsored boxes.

Amazon has gone from a site which made it effortless to find things and buy them, to a site that values advertising revenue over actual retail.

Unfortunately both Walmart and Target have gone the same way and also offer third party seller's items for sale, and sell paid advertisement.

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Re:Jeff Bezos has returned to day-to-day management of Amazon by alexhutcheson on Thursday April 23, 2020 @03:48PM (#22960346)
Walmart at least has a filter you can enabled for "Retailer: Walmart" to remove the third-party stuff from search results.
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