I am looking for impact-resistant goggles to go over my prescription glasses.

As you've seen me complain about before, I pay more to avoid Amazon, I get so much email spam from other online storefronts (I hate bookshop.org so much it's insane), and other online storefronts jiggle and wobble and throb and have chat assistants and autoplaying videos and popups. On top of this, each new storefront requires I bind myself to a new arbitration clause, which lasts as long as I (or the US) still exists. When I can opt out, I do, but it requires I send certified mail.

Most of the people who "boycott Amazon" don't know about the breadth of Amazon (aws, etc) and don't also care to put in the effort it takes to opt out of arbitration clauses, etc. I'm trying to get a gold star in "boycott Amazon" here. But I'm spending so much of my time and money and cortisol and effort.

Unfortunately, everyone else is doing everything they can to make me go to Amazon dot com.

Increasingly, I find myself completely blocked from shopping on other sites at all. Sure, this made sense, e.g. when buying a high-demand scalped item like a GPU.

But I'm shopping for goggles now.

And I'm blocked from shopping for goggles (unless I do it on Amazon).

This happens constantly on Linux behind a VPN. But this time I'm using a Chrome user agent, on MacOS, no VPN! This is as normie as it gets. My only crime is I opened two bookmarks under a second, perhaps.

Now, it's not even a choice. Their competitor sells a better product for cheaper on Amazon, but crucially, their competitor is actually willing to sell me the product.

tldr: increasingly one has not the choic to boycott amazon if they want a specific product. even when there are other sites supposedly selling a product