Comment on Is there an "Avoid Amazon" community for people who want to support smaller online retailers?
EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week agoNot necessarily owned by Amazon, but plenty of websites are running on Amazon systems on the back end for stuff like payment processing and web hosting, or the business uses Amazon to ship their products. There are plenty of Amazon affiliate companies out there as well, but sometimes buying from an independent business still gives money to Amazon through delivery or processing fees or something.
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
Well AWS is much harder to avoid that’s true. I’m not sure how you can even tell if a site is working with them. Only way to be sure would be to never go online.