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I will start by saying I am trying to consume a lot less in my life, but due to circumstance I need to start again in my life. I am also trying to degoogle not use Amazon etc.

With this in mind I prefer to buy a decent value product and look at the options however I have noticed that I keep coming across comparisons and over and over itโ€™s driven by โ€˜check price at Amazonโ€™. Amazon has ruined decent reviews for me. All anyone wants to do is sell Amazon tat at me. Anyone else have this problem of too much chafe when trying to research decent products?

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[โ€“] rem26_art@fedia.io 15 points 1 day ago (3 children)

You really have to try hard to find genuine reviews.

HouseFresh did a good piece last year about the general state of product reviews. They're a smaller site that focuses entirely on reviewing air purification products and noticed a large drop in traffic coming from search engines compared to giant digital media companies that can churn out tons of perfectly SEO optimized reviews of products they've never even tried first hand. And you know all those reviews are crammed full of Affiliate links.

It's a hard time with so much junk information out there

[โ€“] Cherry@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It was a pretty good read. It felt like much of what I was suspecting was laid out in a nice structure, with an idea of why it was occurring. It didnโ€™t feel like a crazy rant. I did note they themselves are an Amazon affiliate however they did take an objective view.

[โ€“] rem26_art@fedia.io 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah it seems like they still want to do a good job at the end of the day, and don't seem to let the cut of Affiliate sales influence them to say "oh its all good pls just buy", which is kinda what you end up with in a lot of other places.

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