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scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

It’s only a bandaid over a gaping wound, but check out Fakespot, an extension for Firefox and Chrome. It won’t help with google play, but when browsing Amazon, BestBuy, or other retailers they use machine learning to detect duplicate/repetitive reviews, and go into reviewers’ history to determine if they are trustworthy.

I’ve seen a lot of “5 star products” get an adjusted rating of <2 because of this extension.

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breakingcups@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I have an axe to grind with fakespot. My wife has a tiny business and is one of the most honest and sweet people I know. She would never pay for fake reviews and she wouldn’t even have the knowledge on how to do so. Someone (not even us, mind you) posted a link to her product on Reddit and a Fakespot robot instantly called her out for supposedly having suspicious reviews, even though each and every order (and thus each and every review resulting from that) was legit. Her product was then mocked and all it did was give my wife stress.

So yeah, take them with a grain of salt. They are probably pretty good on average but some innocent people get caught in it as collateral damage.

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- dubyakay@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Now you need to link your wife’s product.
  
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  - Usually_Lurker@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    I also choose this guy’s wife’s product.
    
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  - TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    I think a link to Lemmy should make a store’s trustedness go way up
    
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  - Summzashi@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    I use his wives product every day and it worked great everything got bigger and it got rid of it!!!
    
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tomi000@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Awesome suggestion. I will check that out right away. Thanks a lot

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- DecentM@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Ngl this looks like astroturfing to me too
  
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  - tomi000@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    What do you mean?
    
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    Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Sometimes I’ve noticed that a seller will repurpose the product page for a previously seemingly legitimate product with good reviews to sell something entirely unrelated while benefiting from the positive reviews of the prior product.
    
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