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Lazada Philippines is a pretty terrible online shopping experience. The total control Lazada/Alibaba gives to vendors over reviews is just disgusting. Like Alibaba itself, Lazada is filled with so many scammers and vendors with terrible customer service, including from Lazada itself, it makes you question the cultural context that allows this amoral behavior.Generally speaking, I try to only buy from LazMall and "Easy Return" vendors. "Return to seller" vendors seem to have far more incidences o...

Startpage.com & Startmail.comSold to an advertising company System1. Placed under a subcompany called Privacy One Group. Very vague on this entity, even in their own AMA on their own subreddit.Official press release: https://www.startpage.com/blog/company-updates/startpage-and-privacy-one-group/Wire Messenger (wire.com)Sneakily sold to a US entity. No announcement, PR spin or anything. Very suspicious.Article: https://www.kuketz-blog.de/wire-messenger-zu-100-von-einer-us-holding-uebernommen/...