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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago (9 children)

Not a complete list, but

  • Adobe: krita, gimp, inkscape
  • Microsoft: linux, libreoffice, codeberg, playstation
  • Apple: de-googled android, linux
  • Google: de-googled android, tutanota, duckduckgo or kagi, libreoffice
  • Amazon: *arr suite for amazon video, little choice for amazon the logistic company
[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Amazon - the logistics company - is just a front end for (and leech on) various drop shippers, lately, anyway.

Amazon used to carry quality guarantees, and have meaningful reviews, but lately the wild West crapshoot of the rest of the web is just as good.

(And at least on the rest of the web I have some idea who I'm buying from, and can avoid them after a bad experience. On Amazon, it got to where there was no way I could tell.)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Aren't drop shippers finished with the recent tariffs, especially closing the loophole of de minimis?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

For you guys. Amazon canada will still be infested with them, for instance. Also that's assuming the dropshippers don't just reroute their stuff to whoever has the lowest tariffs before delivering it here, like how lindt is moving all it's delivery back into Europe so that they can go around the US to deliver to places like Canada.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

little choice for amazon the logistic company

Depends on where you live. Here in Germany we have a few alternatives, like "Otto" and a few others with specialisations like electronics. Some of them have a marketplace just like Amazon and they even offer the same cheap chinese crap that Amazon has to offer. So you could feel right at home.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Can use a website like idealo to search multiple stores at once. I just wish they had a filter to block amazon results.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

playstation

The game console, made by Sony, who famously keeps trying to fuck everyone else over?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

All game console companies famously keep trying to fuck everyone else over. Sony actually comes off fairly well compared to Nintendo and Microsoft.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Sony shipped literal rootkits with their software years ago.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Yes. Twenty years ago. Now take a look at what Nintendo and Microsoft have been doing just within the past couple of years (as well as what they were doing twenty years ago and beyond, since they both have long track records of shitty behaviour.)

Yes, Sony is not a good company, but we're comparing them to Nintendo and Microsoft here.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

True. Nintendo is extremely cutthroat with their IP, they like going after emulators and similar.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Which is nowhere comparable to infecting your stuff with malware...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Which is a thing that's happened on Steam twice this month thanks to update loopholes and some outbound link fuckery. Also anti-cheat is kernel level, which is why you can't play a lot of multiplayer games on Linux, but you don't see a lot of PC games forgoing it because the alternative is being unplayable. Turns out some idiot Sony music exec (which is literally a separate company from Sony interactive) was ahead of the curve on the new normal, much as I also hate it lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Jeez, guys... You're a paleontologist or what? That happened centuries ago.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Amazon is barely a thing here in Sweden. It’s niche drop shipped garbage for the most part, very similar to Wish and the like.

They have some non-garbage stuff at the same price you find elsewhere.

They also don’t do logistics here. Utterly useless company.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah they pulled out of QC so if I wasn't so close to Ontario they'd be completely useless for me in canada too. Not that I haven't avoided them for big purchases like computer stuff already, gonna have to look what general marketplaces we have otherwise lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Tbh I just duckduckgo the company and product if I find it in Amazon and order directly

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Thank you for this!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Little choice?

  • allegro in Poland
  • Otto, Kaufland, galaxus, etc in Germany
  • idealo Europe-wide
  • aliexpress and co worldwide
  • your local retailer
  • second hand shops or apps if you are into saving money and/or the planet
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I've heard good things about lineage OS for android and maybe apple phones but I haven't got around to using it

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

All the alternative businesses to Amazon suck. And also probably advertise on Amazon as drop shippers anyway.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Yeah, switched to a different company for kitchen stuff, bought it on their site and everything, felt good about it.

Delivery day comes, guess who delivered the package? Amazon. So that was great.