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Google removes over 5M reviews from Play Store to improve TikTok rating

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Re: Google removes over 5M reviews from Play Store to improve TikTok rating

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Post by frequentnapper »

chipperyman573 wrote: post #7

This really hits on a lot of nerves of the general HN crowd (especially when these things are combined): - Google - "Censorship" (loosely defined) - China (vs India vs a US company, which could really be its own point) But if you read the article it seems to be a logical decision. Google (likely) did something similar for zoom: https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/03/24/zooms-android-app-r... Assuming there's nothing l…

there was no China Vs India. Just Tiktok vs Youtube - really Indian Youtube and Tiktok content creators dissing each other...

Re: Google removes over 5M reviews from Play Store to improve TikTok rating

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Post by chipperyman573 »

frequentnapper wrote: post #11
chipperyman573 wrote: post #7

This really hits on a lot of nerves of the general HN crowd (especially when these things are combined): - Google - "Censorship" (loosely defined) - China (vs India vs a US company, which could really be its own point) But if you read the article it seems to be a logical decision. Google (likely) did something similar for zoom: https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/03/24/zooms-android-app-r... Assuming there's nothing l…

there was no China Vs India. Just Tiktok vs Youtube - really Indian Youtube and Tiktok content creators dissing each other...

I just meant that Tiktok is a chinese owned company (and therefore state-owned). China has forced companies to do similar things before.

Re: Google removes over 5M reviews from Play Store to improve TikTok rating

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Post by ashtonkem »

Barrin92 wrote: post #5

> "Another reason was the enraged fans of famous Indian YouTuber Carry Minati flooding PlayStore with 1-star reviews. Carry Minati had created a video titled YouTube Vs TikTok, part of an ongoing feud between YouTube and TikTok users. His video went viral and was taken down for violating YouTube’s terms of service. This happended because many TikTok users reported the video saying it was bullying in nature." Seems re…

In principle I can see the argument that this is low quality content that doesn’t help YT at all, but more salient is how unbelievably easy YT’s moderation system is to abuse. For a company proud of their AI chops, their ability to detect astroturfing is pretty weak.

Re: Google removes over 5M reviews from Play Store to improve TikTok rating

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Post by cscurmudgeon »

dkdk8283 wrote: post #10
cscurmudgeon wrote: post #6

People are discussing this as a China vs India thing. It is not. People recently found that TikTok is extremely lax in dealing with content that promotes violence. https://www.newsweek.com/india-tik-tok-faizal-siddiqui-acid-...

Or Youtube takes an extreme viewpoint banning anything remotely close to content with weapons.

Tiktok too takes an extreme viewpoint banning anything remotely close to offending China.

Re: Google removes over 5M reviews from Play Store to improve TikTok rating

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Post by sneak »

cscurmudgeon wrote: post #6

People are discussing this as a China vs India thing. It is not. People recently found that TikTok is extremely lax in dealing with content that promotes violence. https://www.newsweek.com/india-tik-tok-faizal-siddiqui-acid-...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/26/tiktoks-l...

Re: Google removes over 5M reviews from Play Store to improve TikTok rating

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Post by sloshnmosh »

The Google Play Store reviews are pretty much worthless and corrupted by ratings farms and app developers that steal the users google credentials to post fake 5 star reviews from within the app itself. There was a time where you didn’t have the option to only view negative reviews. At least that has improved to where users have options in a drop-down menu.
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