Amazon’s recent announcement that they’re shutting down AmazonSmile — a program that gave 0.5% of qualifying purchases to charity over the last decade — generated a firestorm of angry ...

AmazonSmile was Amazon's charity program. ... Customers could shop via the website smile.amazon.com, and 0.5% of their purchases would go to a charity of their choice.

Amazon Smile raised over $450m for non-profits over its 10-year tenure, and while this seemingly wasn’t enough for the company to stand by the program, it’s no small amount. (Image credit: Gladly) ...