Yeah - now, the downsides of this are well covered, especially by Corey Doctrow, in that once the users are locked into the platform, Amazon decreases the actual benefits - and then starts chisling the sellers as well.

But to fix that, you do need to do something besides just scold the customers.

It’s generally not the search, it’s the payment and shipping

Sure, it’s a phishing attack

Good recommendation for light bulbs?

Do you mean e/is? Fairphone is hardware, but uses either e/os or android

What you’re trying to hide is information.

You’re just shown them that you have information, and it’s valuable enough for you to take pains to hide it.

They might not get it all, but they’ll use the wrench to try.

There’s always an XKCD