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Amazon I would expect, because they sell whatever random garbage they want to.
Google is more than a bit egregious though, considering they’re also the company that dropped support for it.
Google is at fault here for creating the software-defined garbage, but they're not literally selling the products, are they?
Google has an online store from which you can buy chromebooks
But the article is talking about unsupported Chromebooks being sold through Amazon and Walmart. Google isn't selling the unsupported Chromebooks on their own web store.