Yeah, their plan is: deduce what kind of thing they want, broaden it to include more sponsored products, list as many as possible to boost ad revenue, try as hard as possible to get them to cave and buy a sponsored product so we can make more money from ad revenue. Sucks as a customer. Probably sucks as a supplier, it’s the standard monopoly enshitified money extraction maximiser.

skintflint

https://skinflint.co.uk/

Oh wow, I visited, and instead of the usual cookie popup (where you have to click to accept all cookies or customise them), it put a little box in the corner saying “Do not track mode detected. Storing only strictly necessary cookies.” which then automatically closed!

My browser often detects and auto-fills the more common cookie dialogs for me, but this is the loveliest cookie experience anywhere.

I randomly decided to pretend to want a new mobile - RELEVANT filters that ACTUALLY FILTER!

Thank you so much for this recommendation.

It’s tempting. I’m on holiday now until the new year!

What’s the Toughsheet Community? Is it a local buyout or something?

You are actually tempting me to have a train trip up there or something! I think I should resist, though!

Ah superb. Well done them. I’ve been to the Reebok Stadium, but I don’t think it was this century!

Oh wow, is that the same scan from years ago? Back in the day they had a good reputation for being decently priced with decent customer service. For some reason I thought they folded.

I didn’t really understand what they meant either (until right now when I re-read it for the third to fifth time in a day and got it).

I just thought it was a typo in a sarcastic comment saying something like “Why wouldn’t you want things that were irritatingly sponsored?!”, so I thought it was a confusing post, and I still have no idea why people have been downvoting you for not understanding.

Anyway, now I get what they were trying to say.

They mean “If you find it on amazon but then buy it elsewhere, presumably the elsewhere has fewer of the problems with ads and sponsored content, and you can find a specific item quite easily. I’m skeptical that such a place exists, but I’d sure like to use it if it does. Where is this magical elsewhere of which you speak?”

I salute you, lord wiggle.

That is pretty scummy.

“I can’t believe it’s not Budweiser”

Is Lowe’s like a physical amazon store?

1. So hard to avoid signing up for Prime.
2. Even harder to cancel your free trial of Prime if you ever caved and took the free trial.
3. I don’t know why they don’t do Prime for free all year. I always buy more when I’m on free trial Prime. It would be an easy way to get more of my cash. But I guess enshittifying executives are going to demand more customer charges, and maybe they get more money from paid Prime subscribers than they get from increased purchasing anyway.

Of course I would want to buy it every week. Who wouldn’t buy the book every week if they liked it so much they bought it once. Buy! Buy! Buy!

Yeah, amazon used to be cheaper than other places. Now if they are, it’s only by pennies. The enshitification process continues. Hope your Benelux place thrives on good service.

Yeah. Monopoly corporations are awful.

Yesterday was some houseware. There wasn’t anything Chinese in the listing, but it was the same sponsored wrong products again and again and again and again and again and again. I get more Chinese stuff when I look for electrical items, but sometimes the Chinese stuff works out for me.

I clicked through to their browse all products page, and it was a thing of organised beauty.

Someone wrote the code that puts the same listing four times per page.

Northern Europeans doing it well as usual.

When I look for electronic stuff, that’s exactly what happens. It turns out some of it is good, some of it is awful, but there’s absolutely no way to tell.