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Re: Apple removes ‘Fakespot’ app from iOS App Store following Amazon request

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Post by kongolongo » Sun, Jul 18, 2021, 10:49 AM UTC

xeromal wrote: post #118

kongolongo wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've posted a similar comment before, but on what basis do you trust fakespot? If they were being paid to promote or even outright manipulate the analysis how would we know? Or how would they be immune to the same review manipulation by sellers that Amazon is prone to? Why do you think we don't need a fakespot for fakespot too?

Fakespot shows reviews it thinks are dubious and you can take a look and decide if it's right. Some are pretty blatant.

Idk is that very useful? There will dubious reviews on any popular product. Isn't the true utility in fakespot that it makes a decision on the credibility of the overall rating of the product for you based on some aggregation of the total reviews? That's what I'm questioning whether or not can be manipulated or tammpered with, in which case we'd be back at the same problem fakespot tries to solve requiring a fakespot for fakespot reviews

Re: Apple removes ‘Fakespot’ app from iOS App Store following Amazon request

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Post by Spivak » Sun, Jul 18, 2021, 1:02 PM UTC

only_as_i_fall wrote: post #19

That's kinda outrageous. I know this is unrelated to reviews, but I got a product shipped by and from Amazon 2 weeks ago that was missing its original box but instead was in an unmarked box that still had a shipping label addressed to Amazon returns on it. Amazon gives so few shits about product quality it's baffling

I’m kinda confused about this. At Amazon’s size it’s easier for them to do this and then just fix mistake after the fact. Amazon has sent me the wrong items, lost them, had stuff damaged but always always fixed it immediately when I call support.

I can’t honestly blame them for errors when they do so much business that 1 in a million problems happen daily.

Re: Apple removes ‘Fakespot’ app from iOS App Store following Amazon request

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Post by Spivak » Sun, Jul 18, 2021, 1:05 PM UTC

thezilch wrote: post #36

saurik wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"unauthorized": reddit has an official API for third-party clients.

So does Amazon's HTTP API for browser clients. Is Apple going to snuggle up with Amazon and get the Brave browser banned for nuking their ads, trackers, etc?

I mean it’s not really though. Access != Authorization and stopping bots and scraping is a whole industry.

Re: Apple removes ‘Fakespot’ app from iOS App Store following Amazon request

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Post by r00fus » Mon, Jul 19, 2021, 5:56 AM UTC

ffffwe3rq352y3 wrote: post #74

r00fus wrote: post #60

In response I’ve cancelled my Amazon prime. Fakespot was doing the job Amazon has failed to do for years and was the only thing keeping me there. Thanks Amazon for finally making this breakup a done deal.

Man that's extreme. I wish I had the guts to do that. Good on you!

If you look at my post history the quality of products has been going down, and we (as a fam) have reduced our AZ spend from 10k/yr (literally buying everything from there) a few years ago down to about 500-1000/yr in the past year. Prime Video was a sticky factor, but wife's come to grips with saying goodbye to that as well.

I just hadn't made the call. This is what radicalized me.