Almost Everything on Amazon Is Becoming an Ad

Re:Almost Everything on Amazon Is Becoming an Ad by monetus on Thursday November 24, 2022 @11:41AM (#33733295)

They have to buy their own keywords so that others aren't first in the listings right? They don't want Samsung to be the first thing you see. Hilarious and sad at the same time.

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Re:Almost Everything on Amazon Is Becoming an Ad by moolcool on Thursday November 24, 2022 @11:52AM (#33733415)

Yeah, it's one of the things I hate most about the ad ecosystem. The pro-ad argument is "they give the little guy a kick at the can", but that's tremendous bullshit. Try an example: Turn off adblock and search "Lejiled Wallet" (a very small French company which makes nice leather wallets). You'll get ads for much bigger companies (Fossil and Belroy) in the sidebar, and those ads will follow you all around the internet for months. https://i.imgur.com/lAaAdGM.png

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Re:Almost Everything on Amazon Is Becoming an Ad by pohuing on Thursday November 24, 2022 @12:20PM (#33733791)

The future is booking ads for other brands so they catch the ire of the customer.

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Re:Almost Everything on Amazon Is Becoming an Ad by kyleplum on Thursday November 24, 2022 @01:45PM (#33734868)

IMO the only thing that separates this from racketeering is that it's technically legal.

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