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Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, lawsuit claims (arstechnica.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Half of them aren't in China though. It's dropshippers, so you still get your cheap death traps, but you get them in a few days, Amazon get their enormous cut, and they get to take no responsibility when it burns your house down.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

That's why I said "sold by Amazon". The drop shippers are all third-parties. Instead of the item saying "Sold by Amazon", it'll say something like "Sold by [some third party] and fulfilled by Amazon".

Stuff sold by Amazon themselves is generally okay, since they're directly responsible for it (no third party they can blame for any issues).

I try to avoid Amazon where possible though. B&H is pretty good for electronics, and I know I'm not going to get cheap Chinese knockoffs when I search their online store.