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		kennyloginz on Jan 20, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Amazon Closing AmazonSmile This was to avoid paying google

Fr0styMatt88 on Jan 20, 2023 [–]

Like a patent thing?

kennyloginz on Jan 21, 2023 | [–]

Nah, let’s say you searched for the product in google, and clicked on the Amazon result, google gets a cut. If you type in smile.Amazon.*, google can’t claim that cut ( I assume ).

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