Amazon autocomplete recommends suicide kits to teens

Re:Amazon autocomplete recommends suicide kits to teens by dutchbrit on Friday October 07, 2022 @04:12AM (#33118612)

It baffles me that Amazon doesn’t want to do anything about this. I guess the only thing I can do is cancel my Prime account and never order anything from them in the future.

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Re:Amazon autocomplete recommends suicide kits to teens by 10x_contrarian on Friday October 07, 2022 @05:04AM (#33118960)

Looking at listings for pure sodium nitrate, I don't see any of the "frequently bought together" suicide kit items they mention. When I search for "suicide" there's a "Suicide and Crisis Lifeline" banner shown:

  Call or text 988 for the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline
  You're not alone. Confidential help is available for free.

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Re:Amazon autocomplete recommends suicide kits to teens by andrewflnr on Friday October 07, 2022 @06:34AM (#33119482)

Well for one, if you search nitrate instead of nitrite you'll get different results.

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Re:Amazon autocomplete recommends suicide kits to teens by 10x_contrarian on Friday October 07, 2022 @01:27PM (#33124377)

When I search "sodium nitrite pure" on Amazon the first page of results all are sodium nitrate. For the actual "nitrite" listings, my points stands. There are no weird recommendations.

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