Violet BlueDec 27, 2023

New post: RIP 2023 to Clubhouse, 3rd-party Reddit clients, E3, and AmazonSmile; the Wall of Flippers warns about Bluetooth spam attacks; Lapsus$ member to “remain at a secure hospital for life”; our covidy year in cyber; "How to hide a pandemic" and more...

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Show threadMarcusNov 6, 2023

@pluralistic Those Bastards!

"For years, Amazon ran a program called #AmazonSmile, where a share of every purchase you made would be given to a charity of your choice - but only if you found that item by searching for it on Amazon, and not via Google or a direct link: https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys

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Show threadCory DoctorowNov 6, 2023

For years, Amazon ran a program called #AmazonSmile, where a share of every purchase you made would be given to a charity of your choice - but only if you found that item by searching for it on Amazon, and not via Google or a direct link:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys

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Pluralistic: Tiktok’s enshittification (21 Jan 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Cory FoyMay 22, 2023
Just realized - we used to spend a significant amount of money each month with #amazon and it was easy to justify because of #AmazonSmile. With that gone our purchases through Amazon have dropped to about 1/10th of what they were. That little perk held so much justification for not finding alternatives.
Show threadToni SnarkFeb 18, 2023
Amazon has announced that it is discontinuing its #AmazonSmile program, which allows a portion of every purchase to go to charity. The inability to #Smile comes as no shock to #Amazon employees.
matt 🦕Feb 10, 2023

I guess now #AmazonSmile is going away I can finally turn off push notifications and the regular “we thought you’d like …”

If they offered me a new #RaspberryPi sensor each time I’d be down for but they seem oddly interested in supplying me mundane household stuff (a symptom of my mundane purchase history probs)

Debbie Laskey MBAFeb 4, 2023
Sad that Amazon’s philanthropic arm, AmazonSmile, will be closing down later in February. It was such an easy way to support nonprofits. Right?
#AmazonSmile #philanthropy
Erwin Rossen 🔸Feb 2, 2023

It's sad to learn that #AmazonSmile is stopping donating to charities. It's even more depressing to learn that the program was never designed to be as generous as it was presented, but to fuck over Google and have to pay that company less in referral fees.

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/01/24/amazons-dying-smile-donation-program-was-really-all-about-amazon-keeping-referral-fees-to-google-down/

Amazon’s Dying Smile Donation Program… Was Really All About Amazon Keeping Referral Fees To Google Down

You may have heard last week that Amazon has announced the end of its “AmazonSmile” program, in which you could shop at Amazon, and a portion of all of the money you paid would actually…

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KOM-IN-NetzwerkJan 31, 2023

Amazon stellt die Unterstützung von gemeinnützigen Initiativen durch das Programm AmazonSmile ein. Auch das KOM-IN-Netzwerk hatte daran teilgenommen.

Auf unserer Spenden-Seite sind jedoch auch andere Möglichkeiten zu finden um unsere Dienste für blinde Menschen zu unterstützen. Besonders dankbar sind wir für regelmäßige Spenden. Auch Lastschriften sind möglich. Kontaktiert uns bei Fragen gern.
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Show threadJess For A LaughJan 31, 2023
Amazon has announced that it is discontinuing its #AmazonSmile program, which allows a portion of every purchase to go to charity. The inability to #Smile comes as no shock to #Amazon employees.