Amazon Questions Removed

UberTiger

UberTiger

UberTiger

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I've noticed recently that list of questions asked from the section from Amazon products has been removed, which I find hugely annoying as I enjoyed being able to browse to see what common or important questions people had about a product.

Now you have to search, which is pointless if I just want to get an overview of issues or questions people have about a product and see which questions are highest voted or most helpful.

I found this great bookmarklet though which links you off to the dedicated questions page for a product, which (at least for now) still exists at


Thought some of you might find it helpful!

Bookmarklet for those interested. Opens this Questions URL, in a new tab, for the Amazon product on the current page:

JavaScript: 
javascript:void%20function(){const%20a=document.URL,b=a.match(/^(http[s]%3F:\/\/[^/]+)\/(%3F:.+%3F\/)%3F(%3F:dp|gp\/product|asin)\/(%3F:.+%3F\/)%3F([a-zA-Z0-9]{10})(%3F:[/%3F]|$)/i);if(b%26%26(scheme_and_host=b[1])%26%26(asin=b[2])){var%20c=`${scheme_and_host}/ask/questions/asin/${asin}`;window.open(c,%22_blank%22)}}();

Source:

JavaScript: 
const url = document.URL;
const regex = new RegExp("^(http[s]?://[^/]+)/(?:.+?/)?(?:dp|gp/product|asin)/(?:.+?/)?([a-zA-Z0-9]{10})(?:[/?]|$)", "i");
const matches = url.match(regex);
if (matches && (scheme_and_host = matches[1]) && (asin = matches[2])) {
    var questions_url = `${scheme_and_host}/ask/questions/asin/${asin}`;
    window.open(questions_url, '_blank');
}
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Source
 
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Diddums said:
Louis Rossman is digging in to Amazon and their nonsense lately. Hiding negative reviews, promoting crap products, hiding questions, etc. I wonder how long it'll take before people start waking up and stop using them. I can count on one hand the amount of items I've bought off there in the last year, I enjoy supporting my local economy more.
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I watch a lot of his stuff, but he does go on a bit, so I must have missed the one about hiding questions. This has driving me nuts the last few weeks to finally looked into it this afternoon.

Thekwango said:
i love amazon - living in 3rd world Northern Ireland, local shops are all about how much they can rip you off, unless you drive 20mins to a large(ish) town you get fisted shopping locally.
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Provided they deliver there. A considerable number of items I've tried to order won't deliver to NI, even from Amazon themselves (last item I tried was a UPS)
 
The only reason those dodgy replies showed up is because Amazon would email directly people who had bought the product with the question and hardly any context, so people who didn't really know what was going on just replied to the emails trying to be helpful and the answers automatically got added. No reason to remove the questions list from the listing completely.
 
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