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FTC unredacts some evidence against Amazon in monopoly trial (threadreaderapp.com)
5 points by marcod on Nov 3, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


"Amazon pursues a pay-to-play scheme forcing sellers to buy ads. Worse, many of these ads are junk ads that aren’t relevant to what users search for. Jeff Bezos and co. call these Junk Ads “defects,” and sellers pay big bucks for them."

To be sure, it's Andy Jassy as CEO.


"which is why you might search for “water bottles” and end up with offers to buy “buck urine”"




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