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Does anyone else go looking on amazon because they used to have loads of stuff, but now there's just a few things over and over and over and they're not quite what you wanted. It's so full of promoted content and you keep thinking that somewhere on one of the pages there might be something new, but no, it's these same products again and again.
God forbid you want to use search exclusion.
Oh, you searched for “some item -plastic”, guess that means you want all these bestselling plastic ones.
I have literally used their own filter system to find something with very specific specs and it still shows me totally unrelated bullshit because just like SEO, shady sellers will just put an entire fucking dictionary in the description or tags so it always shows up no matter what you're searching for.
And sometimes the filters are completely irrelevant. You're searching for correction fluid and the filters say 1Gb, 2Gb, 4Gb-512Gb, 520Mb.
Amazon: the world’s largest enshittification platform!
I've custom tailored my Amazon experience using my adblocker to delete pretty much any element that doesn't serve me.
This includes any and all ads, "recommended" items, "customers also bought..." listings, banners for their business account, and anything that isn't specifically relevant to the item I'm looking at.
I can't image using it vanilla. They'd lose my business.
Oh wow, that sounds fantastic. What adblocker is that, and how do you configure it?
I'm using Adguard, but most will have element blocking as a feature.
Basically, I select "block ads on this website", and I click on the element. A small box comes up where I can fine tune the selected element (I usually do this to get cleaner results), then I preview and confirm the setting.
I'm able to then take that filter, and use it pretty much anywhere else that I use adguard (Android phone, another computer, etc.). It's awesome.
But like I said, most adblockers will have this feature, including the popular ublock origin. It might just be under a different name.
You can do this for any website :)
Thank you very much indeed, knowledgeable internet stranger.
They do it on purpose. Makes you stay longer, increasing chances of extra sales
So annoying.
Tbh, I find it a little more than mildly infuriating. Verging on very infuriating.
I found what I wanted on ebay, where the same item only appeared more than once if more than one seller was selling it. Amazon repeats the same stuff over and over and over and over.
Ebay sucks though too, they'll steal your money. I will only use them as a last resort as well. I try to go directly to the manufacturer's site to get around these big ones.
we need anti-enshitification extensions and apps for amazon and ebay, the former is even worse
It might just be the things I go on ebay for but they've really cleaned up their site in the past ~10 years. I remember when searching for literally anything would give you results like OP's pic but I haven't seen that in years. I think i do like 80% of my online shopping there nowadays
Today I gave up on amazon and found the item I wanted on ebay, which was much easier to browse because it showed me each product from each seller roughly once. It was so much easier. I saw the same stuff as I saw on amazon but about 80 other products too. Amazon used to be the ones with the product range, and that's how they got big. Now they've enshitified quite thoroughly.
But also the dont want product you, the your product want dont, and the super dont want you product for (8 pack)
All of which are low on stock.
Member when Bezos wanted to solve product reviews to make their search work better? Some time ago, Amazon just gave up and surrendered to the hellscape it has become.
i first shopped on amazon way back when it was still mostly books. they were just starting to bring in other stuff.
their web site and ui has always been shit.
Your first mistake is giving Amazon money.
Very true. Jeff Bezos already has enough. And, like most countries, Amazon doesn't pay tax in my country through the typical shady tax dodges multinational corporations pull.
Haha, I thought this was a comment on AWS at first. Where everything service is just EC2s and S3 buckets in a trench coat that all do something slightly different than another service they offer.
Which, let's be clear, is not an inherently bad thing. Most sane people don't want to reinvent the wheel. If you have a foundation that works and can easily be built off of in a reusable way the. You ultimately end up saving a lot of time and money.
Now, going back to your dig, it is true that Amazon has too many similar services, a lot of which could have just been an offering under an existing service. If you offer a certification just for memorizing what all of your services do then you may have gone too far.
Yeah, I always hated that the foundational cert (or whatever it's called) is basically just "what service is this". The worst is that at the rate things change the info doesn't stay relevant for long.
Sagemaker has literally gone through tens of iterations at this point. Hard to keep straight what it does and doesn't offer.
I spent a few days ago hunting for a EC2 service that I was being charged for. The AWS budget said it came from "EC2 Services" which yeah, could mean anything.
Started by typing EC2 then clicking every single tab to find what was turned on. I finally found the service because there was a region filter, that let me find out that I was using a EBS that I left activated when I was goofing around in another region.
Yeah, the only thing more confusing than figuring out what service best fits your need is figuring out how it's billed.
Some services will spin up eight other things and all will look like separate things from a billing perspective, if you aren't careful with tagging/managing things.
The niche thing you just bought just two months ago and that no one would ever need two of in their life.
That one drives me up the wall. It happened to me recently, but on something a bit more mainstream - a spanner set. No, I don't need another spanner set! Seriously, who buys more than one spanner set ever? Oh, and sometimes I search for an item, don't buy it, but then I'm offered great deals on similar products every time I log in for the rest of time.
I looked at ONE light switch because I couldn’t find exactly the type in other stores (single-gang dual 2-way multipole) and now they will NOT stop emailing me about electrical equipment and supplies as if i was a contractor
Exactly. Amazon are the pushiest of the dodgy pushy salesperson.
I mean I bought one toilet seat, clearly I need 16 more, they know us so well
Check out this screenshot from Home Depot's website.
About 1/8 of the page is the product. Almost NONE of the page is the "specifications" section, which is the most important section.
The majority of the page is "frequently bought together", "More from this brand", and "Customers also viewed".
I have NEVER bought anything from any of these useless lists. But they have slowed down the page sufficiently that I stopped using their website and went elsewhere. Try browsing with just 10 product pages open on this site -- you will start having tabs unload or crash due to memory consumption. Some of these product lists have a dozen items in them if you scroll right, so it consumes gigabytes of RAM.
NONE of the page is the "specifications" section
You may want to double check that. Actually, most of this page could have been left off if that's all you were looking for.
The "specifications" section is a collapsed section about a quarter of the way down. It starts out collapsed on every page, even if you open it up every time.
Maybe I'm just used to looking up spec sheets but this is pretty standard.
About 1/8 of the page is the product. Almost NONE of the page is the “specifications” section, which is the most important section.
Not a very useful metric once you add in infinite scroll. More important is the fact is the "frequently bought together" section between the product and its details, all of which are collapsed by default (unless you did that)
I’ve not used Amazon for purchases in around 5 years and my life is no worse.
I’ll often use it to find products and then buy them else where but as this post highlights it’s so annoying seeing the ads all the way and not just organic listing of products.
Where are you buying things that didn't have ads or sponsored content?
My neighbour
I found that sometimes I need the right terms to find what I need. I'll search several times in rapid succession to narrow down what I want.
I wanted an oversized hoodie for my wife that didn't look like ass and didn't choke her.
Started with oversized hoodie, oversized woman's hoodie, oversized hoodie deep neck, finally oversized hoodie v neck was what I wanted. Then I scrolled a few pages to see the options.
It's really bad though when looking for memory or storage. 1TB nvme? That works. 1TB SSD? Nope. 1TB SSD SATA mostly works, just have to make sure it's ACTUALLY 1TB.
For computer stuff I just use newegg. The filters are great in most categories and once you find something you can search for that specific product on Amazon to compare prices.
I love trying to search for specific products. "Oh, I see you're searching for a specific item from a specific name brand. Let me show you everything but that name brand. But first, let me show you stuff that also isn't that item first. Enjoy."
Amazon: You want to search for laptops with Graphics cards? Want to filter by RTX 3000s, 2000s, or 1600s?
Me: What about RTX 4000s?
Amazon: "What is a RTX 4000?"
Amazon Canada is just a bunch of no name brand Chinese shit.
the hilarious part is that there is genuinely good Chinese products in 2024 but it's almost like Amazon wants to flood their store with over priced junk instead
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.
In the wake of worker strikes and Amazon’s continued enshittification, I have pledged to stop buying anything from them.