Amazon has taken over Europe. After a 20-year-long expansion, supercharged during Covid-19, the US giant is now by far the dominant e-commerce company in Germany, the UK, France, Italy and Spain. In these countries, Amazon is the main port of...

Amazon has taken over Europe. After a 20-year-long expansion, supercharged during Covid-19, the US giant is now by far the dominant e-commerce company in Germany, the UK, France, Italy and Spain. In these countries, Amazon is the main port of call for online shoppers. That has made the company nearly unavoidable for independent sellers that wish to sell their products online. This gives Amazon immense power to set abusive terms and extract ever-increasing fees from sellers.

  • Hari Seldon@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Same. Now, it’s more then a year that I don’t buy on Amazon (technically less if I consider one purchase I made for my dad, but that wasn’t my choice) and I also don’t use Prime Video.

    I’m also trying to avoid using Google products. For example in September/October I started using You.com as my only search engine before moving to Qwant. I’ve also started using Proton as email provider, but it’s difficult to migrate all the accounts.