The other thing to note is, unless someone tells the vendors what's happening, they'll likely never know that Amazon is siphoning traffic from their site. And they'll have to keep checking Amazon to see if their items are there.

Impressively insidious evil, really.

Otherwise, what's likely to happen is that an individual vendor will say, "Hey, stop that", Amazon will stop ... and the next time their AI gathers data, they'll get caught up again. (Yes, Amazon could put an exception in, but why would they? Persistence can eventually yield surrender, after all.)

That said, I suspect the only way out of this is for several of the vendors to join together in a class action lawsuit to get Amazon enjoined to stop doing any such thing.

I'm sure that the vendors could, at the very least, send cease-and-desist notices to Amazon and get their listings removed ... but that takes time and lawyers, and small vendors frequently don't have those.

Apart from anything else, Amazon using the proprietor's product images for commercial purposes without their permission means that they're violating copyright. Never mind the vendors being essentially forced to sell on Amazon when they never wanted to do that.

I don't think it's actually possible to turn it off, unfortunately. I've tried a few times. Also, it's been incredibly bad at distinguishing between mature and nonmature stuff.

Forty! Forty! Forty!

Just for the hell of it, I looked up shirtless images of Nicholas Hoult to see how hairy he was. He will not be enjoying life during that shoot, no.

Also, I feel sorry for the male actors who are likely to be using some really rough depilatories -- possibly, you know, EVERYWHERE -- and all the boy sopranos and countertenors who are going to have to do a lot of singing.

Thing that gets me is that to be best of my memory, there's only one female role of any substance in the book, and she has ... well, really quite a lot of sex (with one of the castratos), and that seems like A LOT for Adele's first film role.

The bell she wants someone to ring is most emphatically NOT a Christmas bell.

This year's peculiarity supplied by Kohl's, of all places.

Yeah, there's a reason why I tend to check every couple days or even every three days, and that's pretty much it.

youtu.be/nrqxmQr-uto?...

Oh, and also: Newsom was the next speaker on stage. She had to introduce him. After THAT.

A Canadian drag queen has beat you to that one.