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Re:Amazon’s search results are full of ads ‘unlawfully decei... by dont__panic on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @11:27AM (#29486729)
A lot of items I used to buy on Amazon have become so spammed with ads and non-purchasable products that I've given up. The big ones I've noticed:

- bulk gum

- my favorite brand of cheese snack cracker

- bulk mints

- bar soap

- toilet paper

The other day I noticed that the search order wouldn't even change when I used the dropdown to change it from "featured" to "low to high". Someone actually broke the sort order of search results in a change, and didn't even notice it. Or maybe there's so many ads at the top of the result that the search order doesn't have an impact any more. But I literally could not find any instances of the item I was looking for that were purchasable at all.

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Re:Amazon’s search results are full of ads ‘unlawfully decei... by cde-v on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @11:59AM (#29487218)
I have always found low to high sorting to be nearly useless because all you end up with is 100s of pages of random cheap unrelated shit.

https://smile.amazon.com/s?k=kitchen+island&s=price-asc-rank...

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Re:Amazon’s search results are full of ads ‘unlawfully decei... by antifa on Thursday December 09, 2021 @09:47PM (#29505887)
Also sad, newegg use to not do this.
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