Craig Peterson's Tech Talk

It's not your imagination: Shopping on Amazon has gotten worse https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2022/amazon-shopping-ads/ [Amazon founder Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post] Sure, Google and Facebook are chock full of ads, too. But on Amazon, we're supposed to be the customers, not the eyeballs for sale. We're paying Amazon to buy a product and probably paying for a membership in its Prime two-day shipping product. When you search for a product on Amazon, you may not realize that most of what you see at first is advertising. Amazon is betraying your trust in its results to make an extra buck. I call it the "shill results" business. Even when they contain a tiny disclaimer label — as do Amazon's — these ads can be misleading because they fill up spaces people have every reason to expect to collect trustworthy, independent information. Privacy… Tor vs. VPN: Which should you choose? https://www.welivesecurity.com/2022/11/18/tor-vs-vpn-which-choose/ Tor and a VPN can significantly help you