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“To improve the user experience we are hiding things that were one of the primary reasons we became a monopoly.”
Comment on Amazon started hiding ratings for some products
lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de 11 hours ago
If you want to try it out yourself: This is the book where it happened. Despite that email I can see all of the reviews again, so maybe it’s a feature they’re testing out.
It’s really shady to have a rating system and hide ratings within that system. Why have it at all then?
snooggums@piefed.world 11 hours ago
classic@fedia.io 10 hours ago
Maybe it's lazy on my end, but my first guess is that it would be in order to prioritize and normalize the AI summary. Basically a dystopic move towards trust me bro
sidebro@lemmy.zip 11 hours ago
To manipulate the market, is the only answer I can come up with. Why else would they do this?
etherphon@piefed.world 9 hours ago
Making their massive collection of reviews only available to their shitty AI, I would suppose.
jordanlund@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
For what it’s worth, I’m in the US Amazon app on Android and it states “96 customer reviews”.
Once I unchecked the box requiring verified purchases, it does in fact show 96 reviews.
Pika@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
[deleted]Tim_Bisley@piefed.social 9 hours ago
I just checked and it looked normal on my end as well.
lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de 10 hours ago
I don’t see it anymore either. Might be they’re testing out this feature and not all users get to see it.
Pika@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
yea i wonder if that’s the case.
There are a few laws regarding fake reviews and review suppression in the states as well. So I’m almost wondering if it was the classic case of they started implementing something and then legal was like, yo, cut that shit out. That’s not allowed.
But I still feel like it might be something to do with the push for removing explicit content from minors that every platform seems to be doing.
DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Remember Amazon is owned by a billionaire or someone who is a part of the sociopathic class. They only want you to buy they don’t give a shit about what you care about just pressing that buy now button. The laws are supposed to force them to care about the shit we care about but, everyone on this planet in politics is a corporate shill so tough luck.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
If you’re talking about Bezos, he only owns 9% (or possibly even less now) of Amazon.
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 10 hours ago
Huh til, it still is the source of his wealth, and the other 91% probably also goes mostly to rich assholes, however I’m sure the public will be holding the bag if Amazon ever goes down in valuation.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
investopedia.com/…/top-4-amazon-shareholders-amzn…
athatet@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
It sounds like they were taking about whoever owns Amazon.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Oodles of shareholders? I doubt it.