Can't Trust Amazon.com Any More

<h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">It's not your imagination: Shopping on Amazon has gotten worse</span></h2> <p><a href= "https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2022/amazon-shopping-ads/"> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2022/amazon-shopping-ads/</span></a></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[Amazon founder Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post]</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sure, Google and Facebook are chock full of ads, too. But on Amazon, we're supposed to be the customers, not the eyeballs for sale. We're paying Amazon to buy a product and probably paying for a membership in its Prime two-day shipping product.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When you search for a product on Amazon, you may not realize that most of what you see at first is advertising. Amazon is betraying your trust in its results to make an extra buck.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I call it the "shill results" business. Even when they contain a tiny disclaimer label — as do Amazon's — these ads can be misleading because they fill up spaces people have every reason to expect to collect trustworthy, independent information.</span></p> <h1><span style="font-weight: 400;">Privacy…</span></h1> <h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tor vs. VPN: Which should you choose?</span></h2> <p><a href= "https://www.welivesecurity.com/2022/11/18/tor-vs-vpn-which-choose/"> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">https://www.welivesecurity.com/2022/11/18/tor-vs-vpn-which-choose/</span></a></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tor and a VPN can significantly help you keep prying eyes away from your online life, but they're also two very different beasts. Which suits your needs better?</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tor is focused on anonymity. It relies on a network of servers, known as Tor nodes, located worldwide. These servers are set up by volunteer individuals and organizations that allocate their resources, computer, and interne