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		greatpostman on Nov 24, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Almost everything on Amazon is becoming an ad It’s an accounting trick. Retail is profitable via ads and more. Retail also pays huge infrastructure sums to aws. It’s all a trick to make amazon stock pump

subradios on Nov 25, 2022 [–]

Not merely accounting.

Cultural as well, it forces the e-commerce coders to take infra cost seriously and alleviates cost center toxicity from infra teams.

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