Hacker News Reader

Alexa pretends to be a data service. Sold that way. Nowhere said "Oh, we lie about best deals, and shim in our own stuff".

If I pay for a data service, and its slanted, I want my money back. Maybe not rises to the level of fraud, but certainly flawed.

> the set of folks with a legal obligation to give you good answers to questions is very small and doesn't include amazon.

Poster didn't say anything about legal obligation.

The linked article heavily implies that legal action could be taken against Amazon for this, by bringing up other antitrust investigations that are happening. Hence the debate about legality.

I'm not compelled to like something just because it's not illegal.

No one is saying you should be compelled to like it, they're saying that the fuss over it is moot because it's not as big a deal as it's made out to be.