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Amazon fucking sucks for me now. Every fucking purchase (which is getting rare and rarer) I get asked to join prime.
There is no "don't ask me again". Every fucking time I have to select "Not now".
I've come close to writing a plugin to help you skip these ads.
Why not avoid amazon completely or as much as possible?
I already am. At this point, if I'm buying something on Amazon, it's because I cannot find a comparable product elsewhere.
I'm even paying more at other retailers. I haven't run the numbers but before I cancelled prime 4 years ago how, I easily spent thousands. Last year, I think I spent a few hundred.
This year, my goal is less than 100.
I've gone back to individual stores for various shit. My motorcycle needs some rubber bushings for its gas tank mount. They usually run about $11 each from Honda, but Amazon wants $20 each. And that's with Prime. I think I'm done paying for Prime at this point.
Lots of small and even midsize sellers are basically forced into use Amazon, because if they don't, then they don't exist. So in some cases you literally cannot order the thing anywhere else.
I do, the only thing I buy off Amazon now is Zeolite mineral cat litter pellets. There's simply no supplier in Canada, but I try sourcing from Ebay first.
It sucks this specific cat litter isn't more popular. It's crazy how superior to clay/paper/wood/crystal whatever. Both in annual costs and cleanliness.
I hear ya. Would albertazeolite.ca work?
Unfortunately not, the bonzai tree crush doesn't allow for urine drainage. I tried already, doesn't dry out. Needs to be in a pellet form.
Thanks for trying to help though!
I was thinking of their other product which they market as kitty litter, among other uses. https://albertazeolite.ca/products/clinoptilolite-zeolite
Where have they marketed as a litter box product? If they have, I'm much more open to the idea. Searching "litter" on that page had no results.
Im so skeptical because I'm under the impression now that the coarse bonzai tree crush wasn't coarse enough and hampered air flow significantly leading to urine damp zeolite that didn't drain into the soak pad underneath the Breeze litter boxes. Or perhaps more accurately: it drains most of it, but some moisture doesn't evaporate.
This clinoptilolite zeolite looks like an even finer crush, which makes me so doubt it'd work, but I'm just going off my previous layman experience.
In comparison, you can see how large (with a lot of room to breathe, which I'm assuming is the difference which matters, but I could be mistaken) these zeolite cat litter pellets are:
https://i.imgur.com/CUc9aZ0.jpeg
All the competing brands use a similar pellet shape. Edit: although I don't know if that's because it's important or if these companies are all using the same source and just slapping their various labels on it.
The second image has a usage suggestion, maybe that is what they were referring to?
Ohhh I see now. This clinoptilolite stuff doesn't rapidly dry out. It's a clumping litter instead, like clay.
Not what I'm after, the stuff I'm using lasts a quarter year x2 bags.
I've come close to writing a plugin to help you skip these ads.
a few ublock rules would probably do the job. it's possible to even run premade scriptlets to fix up a website
I looked into uBlock rules. The problem is that you need to click "No" before continuing. Ublock can block the ad, sure, but they can't perform user actions.
Scriptlets may be useful but I think an addon with a library of bypasses (sort of like sponsor block) might be better.
ublock already has part of that library
grease monkey
Looks like buying the Washington Post paid off then
I barely use Amazon, it's just 90% AliExpress stock at huge markup anyway, plus more importantly they're evil. I do seem to have prime though, which I use to order something maybe every other month when it's urgent for work. Thing is I'm not signed up for prime, it just activated when I linked an audible account to my business account years ago. I do use audible, to the limit of the credits anyway. So I've been kinda torn for ages and can't bring myself to cancel as my old audible subscription seems to be giving me prime somehow for much less than prime is to sign up.
I just convince myself I'm playing the system...
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