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by kgin 2043 days ago
I don't think this is a common perception outside of super a super plugged-in crowd that reads tech news.
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I'm not sure that's true. In 2019 there were many articles in mainstream news outlets about Amazon's counterfeit problem, including a major (front page, I believe?) article from the Wall Street Journal [0].

They also received major negative publicity about the "Solar Eclipse Glasses" they sold that damages many people's eyes in 2017 [1]. I think it has cooled as a news topic, given the plethora of topics in 2020, but (again, anecdotally) I don't think the opinion has restored. At least it hasn't in my social and family groups.

0: https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-has-ceded-control-of-its...

1: https://fortune.com/2017/08/14/amazon-refund-solar-eclipse-g...