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Jeff Bezos urged Amazon to flood search results with junk ads, FTC alleges (www.cnbc.com)
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Jeff Bezos urged Amazon to flood search results with junk ads, FTC alleges::Amazon's ads strategy helped pump its profits while steering shoppers to higher-priced goods, the agency alleges.

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[–] SeaJ@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Jesus. I just thought the coders used a fucking terrible algorithm. That didn't cause me to buy more; it just caused me to use Amazon less. The other thing that made me use it less was the mountains of shit tier products that come up in a search.