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Re:Amazon Closing AmazonSmile by hackersgnahack on Thursday January 19, 2023 @12:32PM (#34443033)
Of course it had an impact. It's guaranteed to just be something that's not seen as 'sexy' internally, and therefore has probably had no-one championing it, and it gathered dust and finally... someone just wanted to kill the code.

I've seen it happen first hand in similar sized companies.

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Re:Amazon Closing AmazonSmile by yencabulator on Friday January 20, 2023 @04:09PM (#34459972)
I'm quite convinced the motivations for both the creation and teardown of this donation program must have come from the money people, not from the techies. It must have been a tax write-off. Nothing else makes sense, knowing how strongly Amazon is a cost-cutting company.
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