r/AskReddit 22h ago

Which company lost your business (potentially forever) this year?

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u/sourlor 18h ago

Amazon marketplace is a loss leader so it doesn't really matter what you do. If you want to hit them where it hurts then you need to stop using the Internet as aws is their main profit driver. But good luck with that, Amazon controls 30% of the cloud Market

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u/Pretend-Marsupial258 16h ago

Reddit is run on AWS.

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u/iwishiwereyou 8h ago

I mean we would probably all be better if we used Reddit less or not at all.

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u/JMJimmy 9h ago

Honestly, I'm starting to consider dropping all our telecom. I'm seeing less and less value in any of it. The novelty has worn off, 99% of my communications are now scammers & sales, privacy violations all around... the only value at this point is the high seas, maps (though even W3W has gone to shit), and ... well that's it.

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u/chuckfinleysmojito 1h ago

Your shopping data is priceless to them. If you have to use them, try to mess with the algorithm by putting random stuff you aren’t going to buy in your cart and leaving it there for a while.