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by redler 1432 days ago
That sort of bulk change, all at once, might just be Amazon deciding to canonicalize the bracket menagerie.
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Not so: the change happened across all these thousands of brands that had the exact style; but it didn't happen to the minority of posts that were from "real" independent Chinese marketplace-of-ideas sellers, who had copied the style with errors, or independently reinvented it. Those other listings still use the dictionary-headword brackets. So no Amazon-side canonicalization was performed.