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by kdnvk 2281 days ago
> a quick visual scan

Yeah a quick visual scan from a human is super easy to automate.

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Amazon is one of the largest employers in the world. It’s lip service, as further evidenced by the tons of fakes on their website.

https://www.racked.com/2018/1/8/16849298/amazon-counterfeits...

Anyone who wishes, Amazon staff included, can go and see the $10 “1TB” usb flash drives that are just 16GB drives with hacked firmware to report a different size. It takes about 2 minutes to find them. They don’t bother.

The evidence is there if you want it.

Amazon literally has a tool for this (Mechanical Turk)
Or just a plain old text search. One of the examples in the article has "50 pcs disposable surgical mask" in the product name.

I just searched that myself on Amazon and got 178 results, and most are at inflated prices.

Yes: you can give a human the tools and instructions and they'll sit there for ~8hrs a day doing it autonomously.