FTC unredacts some evidence against Amazon in monopoly trial(threadreaderapp.com)

5 pointsby marcodقبل 3 سنوات2 comments

FTC unredacts some evidence against Amazon in monopoly trial

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1720088288609087977.html

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amznburnقبل 3 سنوات

"Amazon pursues a pay-to-play scheme forcing sellers to buy ads. Worse, many of these ads are junk ads that aren’t relevant to what users search for. Jeff Bezos and co. call these Junk Ads “defects,” and sellers pay big bucks for them."

To be sure, it's Andy Jassy as CEO.

marcodقبل 3 سنوات

"which is why you might search for “water bottles” and end up with offers to buy “buck urine”"