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		rawrmaan on Dec 17, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: You might literally be buying trash on Amazon I think the simpler answer is that data shows that it’s good for Amazon’s sales, so they have no incentive to fix it.

SkyPuncher on Dec 17, 2019 [–]

The "curse" of being data driven without the right data or the broader picture. Netflix seems to be suffering from the same thing.

It's hard to capture long-term sentiment towards a product, so short term optimization end up dominating conversations.

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