I'm sure everyone has seen the veritable plethora of web pages that loudly proclaim that Amazon.com sucks. I tend to agree, but will attempt to document why, without the usual profanity.
I did a fair amount of shopping at Amazon.com for multiple years. I was running Windoz, which is famous (or is it infamous) for not letting the user have very much control over his/her machine. About fifteen months ago I converted to Linux. After the conversion I once again purchased from Amazon.com. No problems. I then started using some of the extended Linux features on cookies and now I can not purchase from Amazon.com. Why? Because Amazon puts multiple advertising cookies on your system each time you access their web page. I got tired of cleaning up the cookies every time I went to their web site. I found out how to block advertising cookies, and I can no longer purchase anything from Amazon.
Linux allows you to block cookies from a range of web addresses (URLs actually) using wild card addressing. I added the "ads.*.*" to the group to be blocked and have not been able to purchase from Amazon since. They tell me I need to enable cookies (it's working ;-)
Thus I say:
AMAZON.com SUCKS!