mackrelman.bsky.social

@mackrelman.bsky.social

Adult! Here to whimsy

Greeeeat, they (tried to?) get me too. Apparently this is mostly affecting Shopify stores, which I believe hosts through AWS. This is fucked. I have purposefully avoided having my products on Amazon this whole time. I want no part in this creepy data mining operation of theirs.

A screenshot from Amazon. The Creeping Moon (my brand) is listed in the search bar. The results show some really weird incomplete listings without any images featuring my notebooks.
Anne Kirn@houseofdarkly.bsky.social · 9mo ago

As if artists don't have enough to deal with, Amazon has a "Buy For Me" program in beta which is scraping indie shops for their items and putting them up on Amazon (often incorrectly), for their "AI agent" to buy from the other site. It is NOT opt in, and there is no opt out.