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Kenya Oduor's avatar

What a good segway into the value of "hide" vs "delete", especially in a shopping task like this one.

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Jon Howell's avatar

"We live in an era of unprecedented abundance."

To paraphrase Buckminster Fuller: As tech advances, we will do ever more with ever less, and the standard of living will continue to rise for every human on Earth.

Instead, we have "As tech advances, robber barons will steal ever more with ever less difficulty, and the standard of living will continue to decline for every other human on Earth".

Always follow the money, and never forget that the mega-rich are not human. They are a different, predatory species.

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Rainbow's avatar

1990: 2.2 billion living in poverty

2025: 800 million

Source: World Bank (2025), Poverty and Inequality Platform (version 20250401_2021_01_02_PROD) [data set]

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Julia's avatar

I love to shortlist stuff.

When shopping clothes you can do it by giving stuff a like, which is the reverse of hiding but still short lists.

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Jason Clauss's avatar

It's the next best option after hiding stuff.

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Shamik Dasgupta's avatar

I have never used Craigslist. It’s not a thing here in India. But I’d die for a hide feature to wade through the crap Amazon seems to show!

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Geeta Bugtani's avatar

How is this "hide" function any different from "remove"?

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Shamik Dasgupta's avatar

Here’s my educated guess: “hide” only hides an item from your products list and can be later unhidden. However, remove chucks that product from the list altogether.

There are times when we would like to go back to check that one ambiguous product that we hid. At that time “unhide” works like a charm. Remove can handicap you from doing that.

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