I have often wondered whether targeted internet boycott days would shake up AWS, but I don’t know enough about their billing structure to run the numbers to see how much that would dig into AWS profits + how much of their income is flat subscription fees vs. billing on number of calls and haven’t had a chance to dig into it yet.
The frustrating thing is we can’t boycott AWS since so many of the sites we use run on it. But yes, we absolutely shouldn’t buy things through Amazon or any of the other web stores Amazon owns.
pomegranatefern@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
You would basically have to convince a few hundred million people to not use the internet for months at a time with out a single percentage of them breaking the boycott to actually even start to hit aws.
pomegranatefern@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Frustrating, but I appreciate your answer; thank you.
ramasses@social.ozymandias.club 2 days ago
Use vercel instead
/s
frunch@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I try to use eBay as an alternative, though i find every 3-4 orders i place there, i get one in an Amazon box that by all rights appears to have been shipped by Amazon. I swear people are drop-shipping stuff from Amazon to their eBay buyers.
swampdownloader@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
They are. If it has free returns and thousands of feedback it’s probably a drop shipper. Return it and use the eBay label it ends up costing them money.
frunch@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Go figure the margins are that thin.
SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net 2 days ago
They are doing exactly that for a sometimes hefty markup. I got something like that with a gift receipt, so ultra lazy, looked up the item and it was $11 cheaper. Like that totally defeats the purpose of going elsewhere.