If you were not aware, Amazon Smile was a program where you selected a charity and Amazon would donate a % of your purchases towards them.
Got this email a bit ago.
Dear customer,In 2013, we launched AmazonSmile to make it easier for customers to support their favorite charities. However, after almost a decade, the program has not grown to create the impact that we had originally hoped. With so many eligible organizations—more than 1 million globally—our ability to have an impact was often spread too thin.
We are writing to let you know that we plan to wind down AmazonSmile by February 20, 2023. We will continue to pursue and invest in other areas where we’ve seen we can make meaningful change—from building affordable housing to providing access to computer science education for students in underserved communities to using our logistics infrastructure and technology to assist broad communities impacted by natural disasters.
To help charities that have been a part of the AmazonSmile program with this transition, we will be providing them with a one-time donation equivalent to three months of what they earned in 2022 through the program, and they will also be able to accrue additional donations until the program officially closes in February. Once AmazonSmile closes, charities will still be able to seek support from Amazon customers by creating their own wish lists.
As a company, we will continue supporting a wide range of other programs that help thousands of charities and communities across the U.S. For instance:
Housing Equity Fund: We’re investing $2 billion to build and preserve affordable housing in our hometown communities. In just two years, we’ve provided funding to create more than 14,000 affordable homes—and we expect to build at least 6,000 more in the coming months. These units will host more than 18,000 moderate- to low-income families, many of them with children. In one year alone, our investments have been able to increase the affordable housing stock in communities like Bellevue, Washington and Arlington, Virginia by at least 20%.
Amazon Future Engineer: We’ve funded computer science curriculum for more than 600,000 students across over 5,000 schools—all in underserved communities. We have plans to reach an additional 1 million students this year. We’ve also provided immediate assistance to 55,000 students in our hometown communities by giving them warm clothes for the winter, food, and school supplies.
Community Delivery Program: We’ve partnered with food banks in 35 U.S. cities to deliver more than 23 million meals, using our logistics infrastructure to help families in need access healthy food—and we plan to deliver 12 million more meals this year alone. In addition to our delivery services, we’ve also donated 30 million meals in communities across the country.
Amazon Disaster Relief: We’re using our logistics capabilities, inventory, and cloud technology to provide fast aid to communities affected by natural disasters. For example, we’ve created a Disaster Relief Hub in Atlanta with more than 1 million relief items ready for deployment, our Disaster Relief team has responded to more than 95 natural disasters, and we’ve donated more than 20 million relief products to nonprofits assisting communities on the ground.
Community giving: We support hundreds of local nonprofits doing meaningful work in cities where our employees and their families live. For example, each year we donate hundreds of millions of dollars to organizations working to build stronger communities, from youth sport leagues, to local community colleges, to shelters for families experiencing homelessness.
We’ll continue working to make a difference in many ways, and our long-term commitment to our communities remains the same—we’re determined to do every day better for our customers, our employees, and the world at large.
Thank you for being an Amazon customer.
The program raised something like $400 million dollars (but there were 1 million eligible charities 
) so Amazon is axing it because they know how to better donate then plebs.
As usual, people (aka non-bootlickers, which makes them Chuds) point out how Amazon made in painfully hard to actually use the program.
There were seemingly odd hoops for customers to jump through to have their purchases qualify for Smile. Didn't type in the 'smile' URL? Too bad, no donation for you. One of the oddest was requiring push notifications in order for mobile purchases to count (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21233815).
So more layoffs, raising the price of Amazon Prime, and now deleting their public Charity drive, good look Amazon 
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I only donated to 2A organizations
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I only donated to organizations which are both pro gun and pro abortion
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You are why this is cancelled btw
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Mmmkayyyy
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In other words, donating to your local charity that you know and support doesn't have the kind of impact they want. They'd rather donate to political "charities" like the Clinton Globalization Initiative, the Soros Society for Crack Legalization, the Kushner Peace Plan, the Rightoid Hack Judge Society...
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Too many chuds donating to gun charities.
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neighbors
neighbors
fat neighbors
ok this seems fine
neighbors, neighbors, neighbors
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Cities that are known for their overwhelmingly black populations.
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The affordable housing is so the new neighbors can move in, duh
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#justmuttthings
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This is America, just read "Roma" or "Abbos" depending on what third-world shithole you live in
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Gay.
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On top of all that, Prime Delivery is no longer 2 days. It's anywhere from 0 to 8 days depending on where you live, potentially longer if you live in the sticks. Most common number I'm seeing is 4 to 5 days. Their ability to deliver to most of the country in 2 days seemingly collapsed sometime midway through last year.
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I get next day delivery
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Lol same, sometimes even same day delivery
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Lucky. I live far enough out that even back when they advertised 2 days it was more often 3, but it's been 8+ for the past few months.
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I never donated lol
But also, Amazon has apparently been laying off since December so they are cutting costs probably on the front end. Some amazon employee on Blind claims that they pushed a bug even though they caught it. Who knows if it's true. Frick corporations though.
I didn't know Amazon Prime price is going up again. jfc
Krayon sexually assaulted his sister.
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Snapshots:
https://web.archive.org/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34435338
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https://archive.ph/?url=https%3A//news.ycombinator.com/item%3Fid%3D34435338&run=1 (click to archive)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21233815:
https://web.archive.org/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21233815
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https://archive.ph/?url=https%3A//news.ycombinator.com/item%3Fid%3D21233815&run=1 (click to archive)
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