FTC Gets Specific in its Amazon Antitrust Case

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Hate all the junk ads popping up when you browse Amazon? Jeff Bezos says you're welcome.

According to new less-thoroughly redacted documents released by the FTC Thursday as part of its wide-ranging antitrust probe of Amazon, the e-commerce giant, at the behest of its billionaire founder and no-longer-CEO, intentionally packed its search results pages with junk ads. And that's just the beginning of the dirt alleged by the FTC.

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Source Fool.com