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- technology@lemmy.world
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Not like the FTC did much to begin with
The fact that you were unaware of what they do has no bearing on the massive amount of work they actually accomplish.
They make plenty of anti-consumer decisions
Out of curiosity, what do think were the three main things the FTC worked on last year?
And crickets…
They were in the middle of anti trust lawsuits where they were going to force google to sell off chrome.
Lina Khan had like 5 antitrust suits open against the biggest corporations in the US.
She was appointed by Biden and fired by Trump
This article is about a law they just made to make it as easy to cancel services as it is to sign up.
So yeah they’ve been doing a lot recently
ticket closed as “by design”
Amazon fucking sucks for me now. Every fucking purchase (which is getting rare and rarer) I get asked to join prime.
There is no “don’t ask me again”. Every fucking time I have to select “Not now”.
I’ve come close to writing a plugin to help you skip these ads.
I’ve come close to writing a plugin to help you skip these ads.
a few ublock rules would probably do the job. it’s possible to even run premade scriptlets to fix up a website
I looked into uBlock rules. The problem is that you need to click “No” before continuing. Ublock can block the ad, sure, but they can’t perform user actions.
Scriptlets may be useful but I think an addon with a library of bypasses (sort of like sponsor block) might be better.
grease monkey
Why not avoid amazon completely or as much as possible?
Lots of small and even midsize sellers are basically forced into use Amazon, because if they don’t, then they don’t exist. So in some cases you literally cannot order the thing anywhere else.
I already am. At this point, if I’m buying something on Amazon, it’s because I cannot find a comparable product elsewhere.
I’m even paying more at other retailers. I haven’t run the numbers but before I cancelled prime 4 years ago how, I easily spent thousands. Last year, I think I spent a few hundred.
This year, my goal is less than 100.
Looks like buying the Washington Post paid off then
