[pie42000]

Not him, but I miss when search results weren't clogged up with 80 copies of the same piece of shit from the same Chinese factory branded as 80 different items, and rampantly astroturfed reviews. The website used to lead faster and was smoother to use, customer service was much better, less amazon pushing air fryers and rice cookers and other flavor of the month useless shit.

[mrexroad]

This. I’ll also add that the reviews themselves were a great resource when researching the a product space — 10 years back I’d use Amazon rather than google for learning before buying. Now both are garbage; I get some value out of restricting search results to Reddit and then filtering by time (past month, year, etc), but Reddit will inevitably destroy that once they have shareholders to appease. Sigh.