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Lol, this is the first one that I'm mildly inconvenienced by participating in. Wheel of Time S3 comes out somewhere in there doesn't it?

I can wait.

Never started buying from amazon. The stories on Reddit where enough to turn way. I admit having searched the site now and then, but you get the same prices elsewhere, Especially in Europe there is no need for them.

I stopped buying on Amazon Jan 20. I will cancel Amazon Prime today. Many people will also stop buying and many people will cancel Prime. When they stop buying for a week, they tend to find alternatives that they stick with. I was buying several hundred dollars worth of merch but have found better alternatives. I will not go back. Seven days is just a start. Amazon is noticing.

Recommendations: if you have any technical aptitude, get a vice, pliers, wirecutters, nylon cord, and several yards of fastener wire from a local hardware store. That can solve a very large number of minor accessory problems with ingenuity. Old-school prototyping can ween you Off buying smaller "specialized" products.

To give up the addiction to 1-click buy for a week? And you call this a protest?

I’ve been able to successfully degoogle, and recently came to terms that I need to deamazon too. It’s going to take quite a while. I’m a prime subscriber and use AWS.

I’m looking into Barnes and Nobel for future book purchases. I recently did a larger purchase online directly from the vendor instead of purchasing through Amazon. I plan to do more of that.

What’s been frustrating has been the small things. I needed a pill splitter, so I stopped at Walmart on the way home from work, dealt with some crowd and retraced my steps around the pharmacy a few times before I found it, then had to deal with self checkout. This would have been quicker and wasted less of my time to use Amazon. That’s going to be the hardest kind of benefit to give up.

AWS I’ll probably start migrating this summer. I’m planning to switch to Backblaze for cloud storage. I still need to look into an alternative registrar, and ideally very cheap static web hosting. I also need to find providers that have good ansible support since I use that for all my local and remote configuration.

It took years for me to get off Google. I worry it’s going to take even longer to give up Amazon, but yeah it’s time.

I've been boycotting Amazon since the days when they were an ugly data grabbing bookstore and I'll happily go on until the end of time.

I applaud it, really. Maybe it won't disrupt the system but it's a first darn step changing habits. This is the opposite of inactivity, of laissez-faire, of "eh we can't change anything anyway."

I wish all of you good luck and I hope for those who do change their habits by joining an Amazon boycot the drive to keep going.

I've only briefly looked at the comments and my, what party poopers. Small sacrifices are still sacrifices.

I am at a weird-feeling place at the moment. I got too comfortable buying things from Amazon, so my brain doesn't know how to shop now. But I canceled my Prime soon after the inauguration, and I'm thinking I need to delete my account all together to kind of force myself to start working on using alternatives.

TFW when I rarely use Amazon anyway.

Just avoid everything GAFAM. They were already capitalist bitches, now they're fascist capitalist bitches.

Let’s keep this up!! We all save money and they lose money!