Honestly I wish I didn’t. I don’t have a google account. Don’t have any Meta accounts. Don’t have accounts for basically anything I’m not functionally REQUIRED to have (banking for example). But Amazon is hard to avoid. I do a lot of buying in person, but in person shopping is just horrible these days. You need to find something specific and you are screwed. I do try to find other places online to get something when I can but a lot of times I just have to fall back to amazon. Maybe part of it is just the area I’m in though. Tons of the more specialty stores here have closed down. We don’t even have an electronics store anymore after Best Buy closed.
I’ve had the privilege to live in economically robust (relatively speaking lol) environments, which has helped a lot in my mission to avoid them. I’ve been able to do it but I’ve also been lucky. Keep the fire alive, keep searching for alternatives. But damn do I feel for your situation, not even having a basic electronics type store is pretty rough.
Yeahhh they’re nearly on the same level. Treatment of workers is roughly on par, I just haven’t heard of a Walton-Epstein connection (yet). But yeah fuck the Waltons lol
You can order all those things online not from amazon, even if you wanna use amazon to find them you can just go to the merchants website and order from them. I quit amazon prime like five years ago, i get not having local options but just order online from the actual retailer.
I have one collecting dust. I could delete it but it never gets used and they’ll profile me anyway. Last purchase was in February 2020. I’ve always hated amazon because of where I grew up and other reasons, but seeing how warehouse workers were treated during the pandemic was the tipping point for me. Convenience is like a drug, and going cold turkey was pretty fucking hard honestly. But it’s become easier over time. I will never give another red fucking cent to Borzo.
I’ve never felt any need to have an Amazon account, there you go. Never bought anything for them or even found anything that I wanted to buy from them.
It helps that they were so late to market in NZ that they still aren’t really that commonly used here. There’s better local alternatives which cost less
I do use AWS for work though (but we’re gradually shifting off them, there’s way cheaper alternatives these days)
Sorta thought this thread would be full of people saying “I dont even have an Amazon account”. Makes me sad.
Honestly I wish I didn’t. I don’t have a google account. Don’t have any Meta accounts. Don’t have accounts for basically anything I’m not functionally REQUIRED to have (banking for example). But Amazon is hard to avoid. I do a lot of buying in person, but in person shopping is just horrible these days. You need to find something specific and you are screwed. I do try to find other places online to get something when I can but a lot of times I just have to fall back to amazon. Maybe part of it is just the area I’m in though. Tons of the more specialty stores here have closed down. We don’t even have an electronics store anymore after Best Buy closed.
I’ve had the privilege to live in economically robust (relatively speaking lol) environments, which has helped a lot in my mission to avoid them. I’ve been able to do it but I’ve also been lucky. Keep the fire alive, keep searching for alternatives. But damn do I feel for your situation, not even having a basic electronics type store is pretty rough.
Well there’s a walmart that has electronics stuff but at that point you may as well just buy from Amazon anyway lmao
There is always Newegg or B&H.
Yeahhh they’re nearly on the same level. Treatment of workers is roughly on par, I just haven’t heard of a Walton-Epstein connection (yet). But yeah fuck the Waltons lol
You can order all those things online not from amazon, even if you wanna use amazon to find them you can just go to the merchants website and order from them. I quit amazon prime like five years ago, i get not having local options but just order online from the actual retailer.
I have one collecting dust. I could delete it but it never gets used and they’ll profile me anyway. Last purchase was in February 2020. I’ve always hated amazon because of where I grew up and other reasons, but seeing how warehouse workers were treated during the pandemic was the tipping point for me. Convenience is like a drug, and going cold turkey was pretty fucking hard honestly. But it’s become easier over time. I will never give another red fucking cent to Borzo.
amazon is backbone service of the internet dude.
they let you on AWS servers even if you’re not signed into Prime lmao
For now…
Is there a way to see what companies use AWS?
No. Only way to not use AWS is to not use the internet at all.
It’s like saying how to use the internet without Akami or Cloudflare… you aren’t in 2026.
Are we using it right now by communicating on lemmy?
It is not quite that extreme as they only have 30% of the global market. Your sentiment is correct though.
Yeah, so what’s your point dude?
I completely degoogled and the one I had had was tied to that google account. Deamazoned as a consequence.
I had it from a few years ago since i quit prime and my about me says they don’t have info on me so that’s good for me
I’ve never felt any need to have an Amazon account, there you go. Never bought anything for them or even found anything that I wanted to buy from them.
It helps that they were so late to market in NZ that they still aren’t really that commonly used here. There’s better local alternatives which cost less
I do use AWS for work though (but we’re gradually shifting off them, there’s way cheaper alternatives these days)