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What would be a more privacy respecting service instead of Amazon? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I mean Amazon is a hard service to switch from.

Nearly everything you need is available to order from there. Now of course whatever is the next best thing can still get your address and name (unless you use an alt name and address) but I’m talking about apps or services that have better privacy polices regarding storing personal information.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It is not. It is hard only if you are lazy, sorry to be so blunt.

Amazon works because they are :

the top links on search engine for a lot of stuff
very popular and thus misconstrued as trusted
relatively cheap by either abusing its monopoly position and/or selling shitty products that are even cheaper where they come originally from, e.g. AliExpress

So... as others said here, nearly anything else is better. I left Amazon years ago and basically now my preference is :

local specialized shops next door, e.g. butcher, fruit monger, florist, farmer market, bike shop, repair shop, etc
local generic shops, e.g. small supermarket
city level shops, e.g. sportswear shops
nation wide shops with delivery, here in Belgium it would be Bol.com for ... anything, for IT it'd be CoolBlue, for sports Decathlon, etc
international shops directly from producers, lastly it was NitroKey from Germany (as I'm based in the EU I look for EU alternative first)

So... this is actually both easy and convenient because each time it becomes easier. You get to know the owners of the local shop, you get to have accounts on the different online websites. You get to actually talk to actual humans, even from online shops. Last example being buying RollerBlades from a Danish shop and nearly 1 year later, a screw went loose so they shipped me for free a replacement just because I explain the problem via email directly to them.

In the end I'm happier since. I felt like I'm contributing to a better neighborhood and I'm more mindful about my choices. This is even more the case since Trumps tariffs.