Amazon's ads strategy helped pump its profits while steering shoppers to higher-priced goods, the agency alleges.

Jeff Bezos urged Amazon to flood search results with junk ads, FTC alleges::Amazon’s ads strategy helped pump its profits while steering shoppers to higher-priced goods, the agency alleges.

  • SeaJ@lemm.eeEnglish
    23·
    1 year ago

    Jesus. I just thought the coders used a fucking terrible algorithm. That didn’t cause me to buy more; it just caused me to use Amazon less. The other thing that made me use it less was the mountains of shit tier products that come up in a search.

    • Nommer@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

      Same. I cancelled my prime after the last fuckup they did because I realized how little I used Amazon in the last year or two. I was wasting cash because I stopped shopping there from the awful search results and bad policing of fake products and scams. I got tired of using DDG to find what I wanted on Amazon. These billionaires are so out of touch with the rest of the world.

      • Colonel Sanders@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        It’s not so much that they’re out of touch (though they are) as it is that they just don’t give a fuck. Any way to return a profit or bump the stock price a few cents is all that matters.