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Update: We're messing up Melania Trump's Amazon search results (lemmy.world)
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This is an update to this post.

This weekend, Amazon is premiering its $40 million Melania Trump documentary. It's pretty clearly a bribe to the Trump family.

We're going to disrupt the big premiere weekend by messing up Melania's Amazon search results. Specifically, we're going to amplify the paranormal erotic thriller novel Melania: Devourer of Men so it's high in the results. Maybe #1!

The book is perfect: It's absurd, the cover is ridiculous, and it's free, so we're not giving Amazon any money. (Fun fact: It's free because of YOU, the users of A Boring Dystopia. After your comments on the last post I reached out to the author, and they agreed to make the book free this weekend.)

Currently, the book ranks #29 in Amazon search results for Melania. But all the other Melania results seem pretty weak (lol), so we can pull this off pretty easily. We just need people to:

  1. "Buy" the book (it's free)
  2. Share this post and get other people to "buy" the book.

That's it.

Here's a link to the book, in case your Lemmy client stripped out the links above: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07HN9XC1H

Please share and we can celebrate as an erotic novel about a bat monster Melania Trump becomes a higher and higher search result on Amazon!

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[–] IamtheMorgz@lemmy.world 36 points 3 days ago (6 children)

They already stopped people from buying it, I guess.

[–] devdoggy@lemmy.world 42 points 3 days ago (2 children)

This is not true. I just bought the book.

[–] tamal3@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

I also did just now. The big yellow button said "Buy it for free" hah!

[–] AquaTofana@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Me too, for free still as of this comment!

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 25 points 3 days ago

maybe you need to make a Very Private... uh... Nurchase.

[–] criticon@lemmy.ca 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You can't get Kindle books on the Amazon app, you need to go thru a browser or the Kindle app

[–] IntrovertTurtle@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I totally just did it through the Amazon app though 🤔

[–] criticon@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Do you have Android or iPhone? AFAIR the issue started because Google wanted to collect 30% of the sales

Edit: I wonder if free books don't have this issue, I got this book from the browser

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 days ago

If you're on your phone/in the app it may stop you from buying it without the Kindle app.

[–] mulcahey@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm hearing mixed things. Do you have a Kindle? It might not show up unless you've set one up. Maybe that's it?

[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I don't have a kindle and just bought it!

E: It says Kindle for Web for me, is that a thing that can be activated manually? it's been ages since i used amazon

[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago

There's a Kindle app for phones, too.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Kinda looks like her, published 2018, so it's her huh. *Lol description is nuts and yes her.

[–] regedit@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago

This comment was a roller coaster!