It's not faking, it's just doing things that don't scale /s
I created a fake business and bought it an online reputation
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#42Re: I created a fake business and bought it an online reputation
#43This site brought up at lease two separate overlay popups while attempting to read it. I don't usually complain about this, but that's totally obnoxious and meant I didn't finish reading the article. Is there a good method to block this aggressively user-unfriendly bullshit?
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#46"Facebook says it uses pattern recognition to find and eliminate click farms and accounts that exist solely to like pages. Since March, says Facebook, it’s “notified 200,000 Pages that we’ve protected their accounts from fake likes.” I love the way they put this: “Protected,” as if the companies hadn’t paid for them." This may be more accurate than the author of this article believes. I've read elsewhere that precise…
Not just a problem if you spend money promoting to unwanted fake likes - EdgeRank decides who sees your un-promoted content based in part upon your average engagement levels, if half of your fans never engage because they are fake then your stats look worse to Facebook and so your content will be seen by a lower proportion of your real fans, even before you start spending $ promoting stuff.
Presumably, the snowshoe fake likes are somewhat even distributed, so there's no reason to think legitimate business A would be preferentially punished by fake like low engagement versus legitimate business B, right?
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#47I have been on Fiverr for few weeks and ordered two articles for $5 from some guy claiming from the US. The result was hilarious; a kindergarten kid can use much better grammar.
Also found some gigs encouraging piracy, found a guy who claims to give 3 ebooks ( you name it) for $5 ?!
Another one who can give you any 3 Udemy courses download for $5 - https://uk.fiverr.com/udemy_guru/give-you-any-4-u-demy-cours...
I think Fiverr should hire a team to monitor the activity and authenticity of its sellers.
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#48A personal observation in the Chrome store.
I created an extension which I published in the Chrome store. I did notice a curious statistics with another similar purpose extension, which is also quite popular -- both are over 1 million users:
The ratings-per-user ratio for the other extension is almost 5 times that of my extension.[1]
I can't figure any other convincing explanation for this other than the other extension is buying ratings. If there is an alternative explanation I would like to hear it, but I can't think of one -- five times is way beyond one would expect IMO.
[1] number of ratings / number of users.
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#49This is particularly bad in the moving industry. Not only are movers notorious for bribing customers to post good reviews but there are also several well ranking "Moving Specific" review sites that are completely fake. The industry also happens to have some of the most horrific scams...
The less frequently someone needs a given service, the more confusing (in the best case) and scammy (in the normal to worse case), the sales process is.
Look at weddings, funerals, residential remodels, residential HVAC, and the like as other examples. Some of those make used car sales look pleasant and transparent...
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe it's time to NoScript?
I get the feeling having NoScript can be more annoying that not having it so I have been procrastinating installing it...
I use "medium mode" in uBlock[1], which causes only 3rd-party scripts/frames to be blocked, not 1st-party ones. I could read the article fine, I had no idea there were issues with overlays with it, and it otherwise rendered fine.
Not blocking 1st-party scripts remove a lot of the tediousness of blocking scripts by default.
[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-medium...