It absolutely should be legal. But also, if you have to, everyone now knows you're actually garbage. All this does is expose how useless review/rating systems are.
Asus UK PR believes it is ‘legal to buy positive reviews’
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>working on removing the disclaimer This is a sentence on a website. If they wanted it would be gone in 5 minutes. You don't need to "work on it".
You clearly never have worked in a large company. Changing a simple word can take weeks before it even goes to the translation team. Changing a disclaimer involves legal so expect a month of committee meetings before anything new is proposed.
A friend told me this story: He works for a large company as a software developer. He made a PR to change a compiler setting. It was rejected because the build team believed it would cause them to have to add more machines to the build fleet, and they hadn’t met with the finance team to discuss that, yet. I wouldn’t have thought that changing a compiler setting would require capital expenditures, but here we are.
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It's impossible to really know because we don't have mind reading capabilities, but he believes that their intention was never to void warranties for this.
Nevertheless, by what reasoning does he believe this? Perfect knowledge is impossible, but persuasive argument is not.
I haven’t watched the content OP is mentioning, but Linus has a lot of industry connections so it seems very believable he’d be able to get in touch with someone who knows more about the situation.
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#96The enshittification (of ASUS in this instance) continues, unabated [0].
[0] https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/
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According to Linus Tech Tips, the disclaimer was unintentional, they intend to honor the warranty, and they're working on removing the disclaimer.
How does he know the disclaimer was unintentional vs. 'putting it in there to see if we can get away with it?'
The disclaimer is there on the beta firmware pages on archive.org from a year ago, meaning that it was a general policy for beta firmware that had been in place for some time rather than something added specifically for this particular beta.
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I do understand that there are channels out there doing drama for the sake of drama. I do understand that, after over 6 years of following now, JayzTwoCents and especially GamersNexus are no such channels. Furthermore, I do understand that if you have a business relationship with a sponsor, you request products which you will then show on your channel for the sake of reviewing. You are not getting it for free. Compan…
> Companies do get a review or visibility in return. They get a favorable review or they cut the channel off. This is how media centered around consumable gear has always worked. Honest players aren't given early access or any at all so as to diminish their influence.
Which is why Steve/Gamers Nexus often has to buy hardware to review on their own dollar. They're not the least bit shy about being critical when it's called for, which has landed them on the blacklists of some hardware manufacturers.
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#99Asus used to be a great company run by great engineers, but in the last couple of years their motherboards have become terrible. By far the worst of the big 4.
My only reason for buying an ASUS motherboard was because, for a while, they had (as far as my research went a couple years ago) a complete monopoly on Thunderbolt 3-compatible AMD motherboard (ASUS ProArt Creator, IIRC?)
Apart from that, tempted to agree.
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This sign always has the opposite desired effect on me. If I see a sign trading for 5-Star reviews, there isn’t any way for me to tell which reviews were written for a free burrito. So I immediately discredit all 5-star reviews the restaurant receives.
I do this anyway, I just don't trust rating systems so tend to remove the top and bottom marks. Obv not a perfect solution and unfair to those who aren't gaming but over the top 5 star and bitchy one star reviews even when genuine aren't always that representative.
Even without people gaming or buying reviews the 2, 3 and 4 star reviews tend to be more thoughtful about what is and isn't good about the product.
One of the reasons why the "5* rating or your driver gets fired" norms encouraged by the likes of Uber are so awful.