Amazon linked to trafficking of workers in Saudi Arabia, who say they were tricked into toiling and living in grueling, squalid conditions::Dozens of contract workers at Amazon warehouses say they were tricked into toiling and living in grueling, squalid conditions
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"Human trafficking is bad, but I’m not going to inconvenience myself over it.”
You just have to put in a little more effort. I have avoided Amazon for a year now by buying from smaller shops found through price comparison portals. Also, I buy more stuff in the local brick-and-mortar shops. And I buy less bullshit. All in all, my live hasn’t gotten any worse.
The alternative is to do the action of not shopping at Amazon and then over time you’ll learn how to shop without it.
You don’t need to stop 100% immediately either but can wean yourself off of it.
I’ve not shopped on Amazon for like 5 years now. I just buy a lot less crap to be honest.
I buy a lot off eBay. Not that they’re perfect, but at least they’re not owned by Bezoz.
Get. A. Password. Manager. Dashlane is very easy to generate and save strong passwords for any site you shop on, plus it can save credit card details to autofill.
I haven’t purchased anything from Amazon in three years. Getting stuff directly from the manufacturer is a better experience for products where you know what brand you want anyway. Bookshop.org for books. Best Buy for electronics. Wayfair or Overstock for home goods. It’s genuinely not any less convenient when you consider the amount of trash and fake reviews you have to wade through on Amazon these days.
A password manager doesn’t replace that Amazon is a marketplace with thousands up on thousands of products in one location for users to search through.
The person you are replying to is less thinking about entering passwords and more about “now my personal details are across multiple different services half of which I don’t remember their names”
2 to 5 is enough. Specific shops depend on your location and interests of course. Use one of the often 10 or so different payment systems if you don’t want to leave credit card info.
Once my payment account was empty due to a large bill and Amazon wanted intrusive banking details for my very first Amazon purchase. Living fine without Amazon since then.
There’s Walmart. I’m sure they haven’t done anything bad…
“The price of convenience is always high.
Sometimes it is justified, sometimes it is not.
However, trading basic privacy protections for “but it’s so easy” is how the dark times happen. “
Replace ‘privacy protections’ with ‘human rights’, and once again my point stands.
“Thank you for your service”… don’t worry about the optics.
amirite?