If someone predicted 10 years ago what Big Tech did in the last years, they would have been labeled conspiracy theorist.
Modern surveillance capitalism is far beyond the wildest fever dreams of 90s shortwave radio conspiracy nuts.
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Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours
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Re: Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours
#82I wonder if the next phase of the internet is for groups of heck, 100000, maybe 1M or even 100M people to organize to take things down permanently. Maybe right now it's like baby steps, but what happens in a year?
Re: Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours
#83Why do people keep needing proof that big money runs everything.
It's more complicated than that. Jeff Bezos has a lot of money and relatively little political power. You can't just be rich; you also have to be in the right social groups. If money truly equaled political power, we'd look more like Hong Kong pre-1997 (and arguably pre-2020).
> relatively little political power
He bought a newspaper. I would say he has plenty of political power.
Re: Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours
#84Final edit to add: IGNORE THIS COMMENT!
Nothing to see here, but I can't delete this post. tl;dr I got excited because I couldn't see the RH app returned in a play store search, even though I could see the app via a direct link. A commenter has pointed out that this is because the app isn't available where I am, in the UK. Sorry for the fuss.
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I've just posted the comment below in a dupe of this post [0], but am keen to see whether anyone else can reproduce my result:
I just searched for the app so that I could see what reviews remained, using my desktop browser pointed at: https://play.google.com/store/search?q=robinhood%20trading&c...
Top results include Trading 212, Webull, eToro and others - and the page goes on for quite a while (Coinbase, Bamboo, etc) before eventually ending up with kids' cartoon Robin Hood games.
The Robinhood app itself hasn't been displayed. Can anyone else confirm this?
Edit to add: Just tried searching using the suggestion [1] that came up after I typed the word "robinhood" into the query box - which was "robinhood trading app uk" - and chose that. I thought that perhaps there was some georestricted stuff going on. But no: I scrolled to the end and the Robinhood app was not listed.
[1] https://play.google.com/store/search?q=robinhood%20trading%2...
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Further edit to add that I followed the link given in this post, which took me to the RH app page with its (remaining) reviews, and then copied the title of the app as given "Robinhood - Investment & Trading, Commission-free", and pasted it into the search box.
https://play.google.com/store/search?q=Robinhood%20-%20Inves...
Again, that search returned lots of other apps, but not the Robinhood one. Any ideas why?
Re: Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours
#85100k 1-star reviews sounds like bot spam FWIW also the link provides no proof
I have no screenshot, but: Right now, the link shows 4 stars and 180,526 reviews. Few hours ago, when I became aware that /r/wallstreetbets are talking about Robing Hood's app, I took a look at that same page out of curiosity. It clocked around 250,000 reviews, with overall rating of 1 star.
Here is the screenshot: https://ibb.co/PwLD7Sh
Re: Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours
#86If someone predicted 10 years ago what Big Tech did in the last years, they would have been labeled conspiracy theorist.
If anyone predicted Trump becoming president 10 years ago, they would've been labelled a lunatic. Reality is stranger than the fiction we all live within, because fiction has the constraints of being something we can comprehend and live with. It has to be redeeming and hopeful, reality doesn't.
Doc: Tell me, Future Boy, who's President of the United
States in 1985?
Marty: Ronald Reagan.
Doc: Ronald Reagan? The actor? [rolls his eyes] Ha! Then who's vice-president, Jerry Lewis?
Re: Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours
#87Honest question: why does Google care here? They don't really have a stake in the GME situation, with no short or long positions (I'm assuming). They aren't that connected to Wall Street companies. Why protect Robinhood at all?
> They aren't that connected to Wall Street companies. Lol. Sure they aren't.
Maybe, but Google are in a different league to these funds.
Re: Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours
#88How were these not overall real reviews? If they can't prove otherwise, this just entrenches the idea that big money is vastly more powerful than small voices. I honestly don't see how if this trend continues how things will end well. It's not just about Robinhood, etc, it's deplatforming, using AWS, etc as a weapon against smaller voices. I can't see this ending well.
You may think reviews are calculated as: SELECT app, AVG(stars) AS display_stars FROM customer_reviews GROUP BY app; It’s actually an ML algorithm that optimizes for revenue.
Is this actually true? I feel so naive, I would have never guessed.
Re: Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours
#89Honest question: why does Google care here? They don't really have a stake in the GME situation, with no short or long positions (I'm assuming). They aren't that connected to Wall Street companies. Why protect Robinhood at all?
They don't like their platform being manipulated by organized downvoting. Not rocket science.
What does "manipulation" mean here, and why is it bad? What does "organized" mean here? I personally left a 1-star review detailing why I think the app deserves it before I heard anything about the review bombing. If a significant portion of it is "organized", why is that bad? You're making many large assumptions, not to mention framing them antagonistically ("not rocket science").
Re: Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours
#90Jan 28 2020 (14:05): 196,808 reviews (2.x star rating) https://web.archive.org/web/20210128140536/https://play.goog... Now: 180,500 reviews (4 star rating) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.robinhood.... It seems like they just deleted all of today's ratings.
You can see it in the screenshot: https://ibb.co/PwLD7Sh