The media outlet posting this article is not one that I recommend, yet this article nails so much of how the Internet is turning into a pile of "stuff". It uses Amazon as its example, but it's more than just Amazon. For Amazon, the author breaks it into stages of development:
Stage 1: Good to users
Stage 2: Abusing users, good to businesses
Stage 3: A giant pile of shit
I personally don't like what Amazon has become. They've become a powerful monopoly and political force, and do so much more than just selling things. I have a feeling that AWS has a lot more power than most of us realize. AWS wielded political power against conservatives when it shut down Parler a few years ago.
I'm getting angry at a lot of other enterprises too. Walmart tracks your in-store purchases via credit card use, then sends follow-up spam email. Home Depot has started this too. Many sites make you enter your info before revealing shipping costs, then you get spammed for items left in your cart, even if you responsibly deleted them. More and more sites are throwing annoying popups over what you're trying to read. Social media is full of inaccurate information and outright propaganda that gets spread unvetted to forums. It is turning into a bigger and bigger pile.
Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?
Stage 1: Good to users
Stage 2: Abusing users, good to businesses
Stage 3: A giant pile of shit
I personally don't like what Amazon has become. They've become a powerful monopoly and political force, and do so much more than just selling things. I have a feeling that AWS has a lot more power than most of us realize. AWS wielded political power against conservatives when it shut down Parler a few years ago.
I'm getting angry at a lot of other enterprises too. Walmart tracks your in-store purchases via credit card use, then sends follow-up spam email. Home Depot has started this too. Many sites make you enter your info before revealing shipping costs, then you get spammed for items left in your cart, even if you responsibly deleted them. More and more sites are throwing annoying popups over what you're trying to read. Social media is full of inaccurate information and outright propaganda that gets spread unvetted to forums. It is turning into a bigger and bigger pile.
Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?
