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I just noticed he also mentioned sponsored ads in Amazon results and etc, which are definitely worse than in YouTube/etc videos.

I’ve cut down buying from them quite a bit, but when using the Amazon app, or web without adblock, the sponsored results have made the shopping experience SIGNIFICANTLY worse in the last 6 months.

It used to be that you’d see one here and there, but the volume of “sponsored” results has gotten ridiculous, and the quality is awful. Half of the sponsored results I see - at best - are very specifically not what I searched for. Sometimes not even close.

It’s one of several reasons I hardly buy from them anymore.

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Of all the ads being pushed on us, this type seems like the least egregious to me.

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You answered a question with a good answer, just not to the question they aske. They asked about the comment - “it’s not the game we bought into at launch”. They were talking about how a lot of people complained that what the game was at launch wasn’t what had been advertised - what people “bought into”.

You seem to be explaining why it’s “not the game you bought at launch” - which is definitely a valid argument too, just to something else.

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No, this is what you get when (list of reasons in the article, which is mostly other things)

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Every Atari 2600 game ever made is like 2MB compressed :)

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One of those compressed Wikipedia dumps, and a whole bunch of retro games. And several MB of text-only ebooks. Compressed of course.

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Thats not really an answer to their question, though.

Also I disagree :)

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Oh god, so there is absolutely nothing they can ever do to make up for it, I guess. Even after like 10+ MAJOR updates and expansions over 6+ years for free, they can’t possibly ever do enough for some people, I guess.

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