Have you noticed an increase in generic junk products on Amazon?

Have you noticed that whenever you search for a given product on Amazon, the initial results are all these products with meaningless "brand names" in all caps like ZORXWO and STILVY and things like that? Apparently these are throwaway trademarks that Chinese factories create to conform to American law which requires products be sold under a brand name. And you have to scroll through a lot of this stuff to find any recognizable brands.

Amazon seems to have gotten really crappy recently. I ended up canceling my Prime subscription. 😕

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ArishMell · 70-79, M

I would not even "subscribe" to these companies; I would not trust them.

What mail-order purchases I make - postal, telephone or Internet - are very few in number, for special items, from known retailers. Unless incapacitated I would not even use the regular supermarkets' on-line order and delivery services: I visit the shops physically. I refuse their "loyalty cards", sometimes idiotically called "club" cards, too.

I have though have noticed that Mickeysoft, Goggles and their like are rendering searching for anything on the Internet harder and harder, and more and more frustrating.

It's fine if you have a definite web-site address to use; but more generic searches are blocked by screenful after screenful of junk. Totally irrelevant links via only the flimsiest text-matching; and by screenful, a full-size display nearly ten inches deep, not the titchy thing on a 'phone.

Certain craft hobby circles have coined the general name for a low-quality material, especially metal, Chinesium!

(If you can't find it, it's evidently of Unobtanium.)