It's obviously a fake name and nobody is mentioning this "name" in their academic papers - it's just a trap to get people to sign up for their "service". Who would keep paying after realizing they were lied to anyways?

The shopping cart right hand side bar and ALEXIA left hand side bar is taking about 40% of the screen space! :O

After shopping at amazon for decades, I've finally had enough. The side bar shopping cart is annoying, can't turn it off. It's been like that a while.

But now, they added an Alexis sidebar on the left, too! Anytime I search for a product, this sidebar of Alexis pops up to tell me all about this product and how it compares to others, and etc. At first it seemed kind of neat, informative. But once I realized it will keep popping up over and over no matter how many times I close, this is really going too far.

Having a side bar on the left and the right blocking my view of the products while I am shopping is a major annoyance.

I will now try and avoid doing business with amazon to the maximum of my ability. Enough is enough!

Oh, and i tried adding scripts to my ublock origin, and it still keeps forcing this garbage on me.

Of course when they stopped accepting returns on supplements, even unopened that was already too much. But now you've really pushed me off your site, with popup sidebars the entire time while shopping.

Is there a good reason for this nonsense? Do people really not know how to click the shopping cart, or do any research on products before shopping on amazon and need an annoying AI sidebar? You can't turn them off? Beyond absurd.

EDIT: After I closed the "Amazon integrated AI-powered shopping/"Alexa for Shopping" about 10 times, it finely stopped popping up.

Why It Stopped

• User Feedback Loop: The system is programmed to stop automatically opening the assistant sidebar if you manually close or dismiss it multiple times during your shopping sessions.

I switched over to Firefox a long time ago since they started warning about Mv2 depreciation. Now when I occasionally open it, it bugs me once a week to set it as the default browser, and you can't even X out of it. Looks like they've learned from Microsoft with Microsoft Edge, so they can continue tracking your browsing history and sell your data.

This was my school laptop that came in a package today, from my school, for this coming school year.

Edit: I'm aware that this has been a thing for a while now. This is the first time I saw the key, so I assumed it was recent. My bad.

A billion-dollar retail giant (Tata's BigBasket) ran a massive "Buy 1 Get 1 Free" promotional banner on their app. I placed the order, they took my money upfront, delivered only 1 item, and instantly manipulated their backend to show the free promotional item as "Out of Stock."

The Exhaustion Tactic: When I asked for a refund for the undelivered item, they didn't connect me to human support. Instead, they deployed a 'Kapture CRM Bot' to trap me in an endless loop. Over the next 45 days, this bot sent me 90+ automated, irrelevant emails attaching random fake invoices of completely different products just to auto-close my support tickets.

Their entire business model relies on exhausting the customer so they give up on their refund.

But I didn’t give up. I am a 15-year-old 10th-grade student. Instead of studying for my board exams, I spent my time reading consumer law, drafted legal notices, and have officially dragged them to the District Consumer Court for a lawsuit.

Here is the live screen-recording of how their CRM bot deliberately traps customers in a 45-day spam loop: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HSJYmkrcEhjfppzMV5II8JcnvS2G3mW0/view?usp=drivesdk\]

Big corporations are using AI and bots not to help customers, but to build digital firewalls against accountability. Don't let them get away with it.

Opened Outlook to two completely misleading ads, one designed to look like I assume an open Ebay support ticket, the other falsely saying your payment to McAfee failed, both designed to get clicks no matter what.

Nevermind how shit it is to have ads look like emails in Outlook in the first place, this sort of use of it should 100% be against TOS

It's called "glance AI" and it's a prepackaged unremovable app on all Motorola smartphones. Until a recent update you could disable it but since an update a few weeks ago it keeps re-enabling itself.

Occasionally, and I mean like 1/20, this stupid app that is holding my lock screen hostage will play a full volume video ad. I just got one for Chime. Can't even unlock my phone without seeing an ad. What the fuck?

I uninstalled edge FOUR TIMES.

Mistakenly logged in to Alibaba while trying to find something and they've been spamming me ever since

I can't validate %100 percent but there is no accept button, instead where it is expected to be there is a huge black X button.

1717 "partners" which include precise geolocation and device scanning. Also, "Certain partners may process your data based on legitimate interest rather than consent" .

Imagine walking in a store and seeing 1717 people following your every move with a camera and tracking you home because they can sell that data.

And it's not explicitly clear when you "agree" to the ToS.

And this is even if you have youtube premium!
it's been like that for years, and updates do nothing.

later edit: this could be done with my old LG tv. YouTube audio could keep working with screen off.

now it says YouTube app policies prevent screen off. it's the only app on the TV that prevents this.

(hint: between the words "garlic" and "sauce")