Why the Internet Is Turning into QVC

The good thing about shopping channels was that you could easily ignore them.

I hope this will be the case for this stuff too. But I'm sure these companies will go all-in and shove it in our faces. Oh well, yet another reason to avoid them. I see more and more apathy towards social media around me.

One reason I go to Amazon for buying stuff is just that they do it so well. They don't push too much stuff or send me newsletters. They just sell me what I'm looking for and deliver it to my local pickup machine so I don't even have to be at home. And no-hassle returns.

I know they're killing local business but the stores for stuff I buy on Amazon (electronics etc) are all in the hands of big multinational chains anyway.

But if I could buy directly on Google, would they do it this well? I doubt it. They probably use the cheapest shitty courier that takes 3 days to deliver and have an office on the other side of town to pick up from if I wasn't home.

The internet is turning into QVC because a lot of online advertising models are falling apart or never provided sustainable revenue to begin with.

I suppose this is just a different form of advertising, but hopefully it is less user hostile then pop up ads and intrusive tracking.

Google? Amazon? SEO optimizations that make any search result corrupted towards paid results?

Surely the reason is capitalism? If you make every person compete for lining their own pockets in order to determine their quality of life, every channel available will be exploited and every effort will scale as far as that channel will allow it?