[yarcob]

Here in Austria/Germany I see these dark patterns only from Amazon. They always try to get you to subscribe to prime, they mislead you with delivery times (my girlfriend has Prime and the website shows LONGER delivery times for her. Same item, browser signed into my account without Prime: shorter delivery time)

I want to support the local economy, so unless an item is only available on Amazon, I try to avoid buying from them. I've ordered from lots of different online stores in the past few years, and in my experience these dark patters are pretty rare.

[helmholtz]

Exactly. For all of that bullshit, plus Bezos' absolutely despicable conduct during Covid, I deleted my Amazon account and haven't looked back. Music gear? Thomann. Electronics? Digitec or Rakuten. And..., er, I'm struggling to think what Amazon was good for anyway. But regardless, unknown stuff? shopping.google.com

Honestly, of the top-x tech companies, Amazon is probably one of the easiest to quit, perhaps after Netflix.

ETA: And oh yeah. Books? Once again, search on shopping.google.com and buy from some small vendor.