A few months back I closed my amazon account, logged out and blocked the website from my searches.
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A few months back I closed my amazon account, logged out and blocked the website from my searches.
Shocking how well this has worked. Right up until I needed to order some more Advil. Which I always bought on amazon and very few other online sources sell. When I did the search: just two results on the first page. All the rest were amazon.
They have a very bad monopoly on certain home-goods. I'm delighted to pay a little more to avoid them.
You don't really see it until you leave.
@futurebird I did the same too, and I am in luck that where I live I can walk to a pharmacy or a grocery store, even a hardware store(
), for those goods that are more difficult to source online.It honestly has made me a lot more conscientious about my shopping as a whole, and for that reason alone I don’t regret it.
(That said there a stack of reasons a mile high why I don’t regret dropping Amazon, but yanno) -
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A few months back I closed my amazon account, logged out and blocked the website from my searches.
Shocking how well this has worked. Right up until I needed to order some more Advil. Which I always bought on amazon and very few other online sources sell. When I did the search: just two results on the first page. All the rest were amazon.
They have a very bad monopoly on certain home-goods. I'm delighted to pay a little more to avoid them.
You don't really see it until you leave.
I highly recommend blocking amazon from your searches. Even if you can't go full "zero amazon" for some annoying practical reason. It's really eyeopening how much of the commercial web they can seem to dominate. I also block pinterest. (pinterest makes it so hard to find the source of images, it's like a virus.) I consider excluding both essential.
Further, if you are going zero amazon it removes the temptation to go back. It just doesn't exist for me. I find another way.
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I highly recommend blocking amazon from your searches. Even if you can't go full "zero amazon" for some annoying practical reason. It's really eyeopening how much of the commercial web they can seem to dominate. I also block pinterest. (pinterest makes it so hard to find the source of images, it's like a virus.) I consider excluding both essential.
Further, if you are going zero amazon it removes the temptation to go back. It just doesn't exist for me. I find another way.
@futurebird @maggiejk I thought I couldn't live without it. Till I canceled Prime. Suddenly without the free shipping, the rest of my options opened up. I haven't ordered anything from Amazon this year! And that's after moving to a new state into a new lifestyle living partly off-grid in an RV rushing to beat the tariffs, so I've needed to order a lot to solve new problems. Ebay, Wayfair, Etsy, direct from the manufacturer, local hardware store, thrift and liquidation stores, lots of options.
I'm only just coming to the point where I might have to do one more Amz order for stuff I can't find elsewhere.
I still have to have an account (I have books published through KDP). But now they're sending me more money than I'm sending them. It feels wonderful and freeing to stick it to them and sent my money elsewhere.
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A few months back I closed my amazon account, logged out and blocked the website from my searches.
Shocking how well this has worked. Right up until I needed to order some more Advil. Which I always bought on amazon and very few other online sources sell. When I did the search: just two results on the first page. All the rest were amazon.
They have a very bad monopoly on certain home-goods. I'm delighted to pay a little more to avoid them.
You don't really see it until you leave.
@futurebird You caused me to learn how to block specific search results, which I didn't even know was possible. Many thanks!
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A few months back I closed my amazon account, logged out and blocked the website from my searches.
Shocking how well this has worked. Right up until I needed to order some more Advil. Which I always bought on amazon and very few other online sources sell. When I did the search: just two results on the first page. All the rest were amazon.
They have a very bad monopoly on certain home-goods. I'm delighted to pay a little more to avoid them.
You don't really see it until you leave.
I remember it actually sucked for a while when I cancelled Amazon and I was still in a fairly walkable part of my city then.
But I think it was mostly trying to figure out where things were again normally.
Now I get all my medical needs from a local pharmacy (with exception*), but I only do that because I have to be there once a month for meds anyways. I'm sure otherwise I'd go to another pseudo monopoly like a grocery chain or a pharmacy chain.
I try to go to farmers markets more regularly, but my local ones are becoming more "hand crafted goods" and less the food that I'm gonna cook so I've caught myself at the Kroger's more often than I want.
I should try the coop more now that I'm not drowning in being a college student
*Exception being I get first aid kits and stop the bleed kits from places like North American Rescue
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I highly recommend blocking amazon from your searches. Even if you can't go full "zero amazon" for some annoying practical reason. It's really eyeopening how much of the commercial web they can seem to dominate. I also block pinterest. (pinterest makes it so hard to find the source of images, it's like a virus.) I consider excluding both essential.
Further, if you are going zero amazon it removes the temptation to go back. It just doesn't exist for me. I find another way.
@futurebird how do you block sites from search?
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@futurebird how do you block sites from search?
I use a browser extension. I need one for each browser I use, but they are lightweight and work well.
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I use a browser extension. I need one for each browser I use, but they are lightweight and work well.
@futurebird @passthejoe you can possibly also use -site:amazon.com etc, but it could become a bit tiresome after a while.
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@futurebird @passthejoe you can possibly also use -site:amazon.com etc, but it could become a bit tiresome after a while.
@futurebird @passthejoe Ooh, -site:amazon.* works too.
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@futurebird @passthejoe Ooh, -site:amazon.* works too.
It's fine, but I like the extension that just blots out all the results a bit better since having that extra string in every search can be disruptive at times.
