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		dspillett on Nov 24, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Almost everything on Amazon is becoming an ad I see options to filter by brand including a separate “out brands” option, but that isn't the same unless I'm looking for a specific brand rather than “just not cheap & grotty drop-shipped crap thankyouverymuch”. The usefulness of the brand filter seems to vary greatly by product. For instance when searching for SATA SSDs it only offers “Seagate, Crucial, Western Digital, Samsung”.

morsch on Nov 24, 2022 [–]

I "just" had to select a few random other filters like "New" and the product category and suddenly the seller filter magically appeared.

The search function was always capricious like that, from the get-go. Presumably there's method to that madness.

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