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points by nekooooo 2 days ago | 0 comments

their innovation seems to be limited to renaming the forced sidebar on amazon.com every few months and not allowing me to dismiss their useless features.

[–] onefiftymike 2 days ago

Ublock hides the sidebar from me, but it does still take up the whitespace on the side of the screen. Now it won't remember that I dismissed it and it pops back in on every new screen. I am just used to the screen being narrower now. But it is still annoying.

[–] duskwuff 2 days ago

The chatbot sidebar seems to also be the only way of accessing certain Amazon features, like the price history. And it seems to be implemented in a particularly silly way - clicking the "price history" button prompts the chatbot to show you the price history, rather than just showing it.

[–] phainopepla2 2 days ago

I think the forced-chat price history thing is a dirty way of trying to get people used to talking to the chatbot. Can't think of any other reason it would be designed so stupidly

[–] benibela 2 days ago

They also started calling me and asking if I wanted to update my Amazon account to an Amazon Business account.

[–] monknomo 2 days ago

oof the sidebar on mobile is killing me