• empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 months ago

    Meta is struggling a lot less, probably because they were smart enough to lay off in one go,

    or more like their user experience was already so garbage, adding AI to it doesn’t make any noticeable change lol

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      4 months ago

      I don’t use a single Meta product on purpose. I’m sure they scrape my data despite my best efforts to not be tracked online.

      I still unfortunately order things from Amazon for the convenience, use Windows for gaming and at work, and occasionally use Google search with heavy boolean search, custom search engines, and browser extensions for filtering out the garbage. I also still use Google Maps and I have an Android based tv where I occasionally watch SmartTube.

      Hell I even get Netflix included with my T-Mobile subscription. My wife watches that.

      And for now, I have an iPhone SE until it dies and I make the switch to a Google phone or something.

      Typing this out makes me wonder what I’m waiting for to find alternatives for this FAANG garbage, but I have no idea how Facebook still exists.

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        4 months ago

        I still unfortunately order things from Amazon for the convenience

        It turned out that it’s incredible easy to order as guest at other sides

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          Yes but I don’t want to type my billing details every time I need some thing. I don’t want to wait 6 weeks. I don’t know if other sites are reputable. I don’t want to pay shipping. I like being able to wishlist stuff or store stuff in my cart for later and read lots of reviews on products (I’m aware many are fake).

          There’s also the fact that nearly every website runs on AWS, so even if I boycott Amazon (I’m sure they’ll miss my $100 a month in purchases), I’m still providing them money by visiting the sites that are hosted on AWS. Pretty hard to completely avoid them in this day and age.

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            4 months ago

            Amazon for me has been utter garbage in the last 10 years. Fake products, stuff that is supposedly coming next day comes in 3+ days, customer service is some copy/paste canned answers etc

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              We order a lot of baby stuff on there. They’ve accepted returns on everything that didn’t work or wasn’t what we anticipated. We can walk to a UPS store from our house and drop it off. Anecdotally, they also have the best deals about 50% of the time on PCPartPicker.

              It does take longer to fulfill some orders for us. But others show up a day or three early even though we don’t pay for Prime. I used to work for the post office before they switched to their own delivery, and they would drop off their pallets to us in the mornings to be taken out for the last mile by our carriers. It seemed like that was a better experience. It has definitely enshittified somewhat since their golden days.