When you use a shop’s internal search function, you never find the most suitable product but rather the one the retailer has paid the most for. Etsy, for example, has been doing this for years.
#Amazon, however, took bribery to a whole new level. Learn how they get obscenely rich with bribery, by Cory Doctorow (npub1fdr…lvhs) https://pluralistic.net/2026/09/04/cheating-at-fraud/#absentee-rentier
"We are stuck in the Enshittocene, the era in which everything is turning into a pile of shit, because the worst ideas of the worst people now make the most money."
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