Let this very stupid move be the death knell for Amazon
Amazon Is Ending an Important Privacy Feature for Alexa Echo Devices By the End of the Month
https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/amazon-echo-ends-do-not-send-voice-recordings-option/488677
Example #52794 of how utterly shitty Amazon is as a company.
https://www.theverge.com/news/631435/amazon-cpsc-lawsuit-recall-third-party-products
LOLOL. Of course he does!!!!
Trump Praises Bezos’ Makeover of the Washington Post
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-praises-jeff-bezos-makeover-of-the-washington-post/
Audible alternatives...
Libby, Hoopla, Libro.fm
more info on Libro:
"We are an alternative to Amazon-owned Audible 
With us, you select the independent bookshop you want to support (we have 3,000+ partners across the globe), and we share profits from your purchase with them.
We're also employee-owned and a registered Social Purpose Corporation."
@mookie Step Number one: DO NOT USE AMAZON.
#boycottamazon
How about that … Amazon doesn’t even ask why you’re canceling your Prime membership.
I guess they’re tired of hearing about how people resent their support of fascism. Well, they’ll notice when enough of us switch to their competition.
Stay the course! NO AMAZON, MARCH 7 THROUGH 14, 2025!
It's called boycotts, dumb ass!
Fox Business host on 'shocking decline' in consumer spending: 'The boom times are over'
https://thehill.com/business/5183167-fox-business-host-on-shocking-decline-in-consumer-spending-the-boom-times-are-over/
Related to my Amazon-avoidance post that is apparently quite resonant with a couple hundred of you ...
Yesterday I wound up ordering vegetable-matter compost through them, from a place one state over that does not ship out of state from its own site. It's a family-owned organic farm business. I wanted to support them directly, but that wasn't an option.
When you can't source something locally (I know, I was appalled), and you can't get it directly from the place that does have it, the evil 'Zon is a last resort.
See also my post yesterday about bozos trying to sell me potting mix when I specifically asked for vegetable-matter compost. These are not the same thing. Don't think I'll fall for it.
Amazon boycotts must be making a dent; they’re running tv spots “reminding you that 60% of Amazon sales are from independent sellers.”
Time to open a new store, independent sellers!
@Remittancegirl Been Boycotting #amazon for years. Not a week,not a day. It should be Banned for ever. But hey, go!! #boycottamazon
@Remittancegirl I have never knowingly used Amazon. It's a terrible company for many reasons. #BoycottAmazon #FuckBezos
As it's World Book Day allow me to present to you my Ethical Bookseller Search Tool once more...
https://ethicalrevolution.co.uk/amazon-alternatives/
It's a nifty tool in to which you can enter any book title / author / ISBN and find the book from more ethical booksellers than Amazon.
Our research has shown that more often than not the ethical bookseller option is as cheap or cheaper than Amazon! = Win / win.
Lots of info on the page as to why we should be avoiding Amazon too. @bookstodon
One more piece for The Washington Post to be ashamed of.
If you don’t have the balls to run a newspaper, don’t.
P.S. Fuck you Marc A. Thiessen.
Boosting this little article from one of my favorite authors who is not stuck on one ebook platform. This rodent is sad about the monopolistic situation. I would have to fork over my fistful of dollars to Bezos if I want to keep reading some of my other favorite authors, just because they can't or won't publish elsewhere. (Yes, I know the ROI for indie authors on non-#Amazon platforms is minuscule to zero at best, but.)
https://everywhereindies.wordpress.com/2025/02/27/youre-mad-at-amazon-but-you-love-your-favorite-authors-now-what/
#books #ebooks #boycottAmazon #bookstodon
We don't buy from Amazon, we dumped Netflix a little while ago but we still had our subscription to HBO until yesterday evening. That's now gone as well.
From now onward we won't be sending a little bit of money each month to the USA.
TV is not worth supporting fascism.
#boycottUSA #hbo #netflix #amazon #boycottamazon #boycottnetflix #boycotthbo
Ok Canadians, another reason to boycot Amazon, if you are not already.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/unionized-amazon-warehouse-quebec-concern-1.7470487
Dying in Darkness: Jeff Bezos Turns Out the Lights in the Washington Post’s Opinion Section
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/02/26/jeff-bezos-washington-post-opinion-00206330
waiting for summer 
