2006
Firefox will have a built-in ‘fake reviews detector’ — Amazon is in trouble (mashable.com)
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[–] 25 points 3 years ago (2 children)

With Amazon there's also the problem of them combining reviews of entirely different products into a single product's page. I have no idea why they do this. There are also sellers who switch the product on the page while keeping the positive reviews for an earlier product.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    This right here. It should be illegal to do this. I discovered this I think last year and it blew my mind, it's straight up misleading the consumer.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    I avoid those as soon as I notice the signs, but I've found less and less instances over time (which is a relief since there used to be loads of pages like that). I thought I read somewhere it's against Amazon's own rules to do this. Not 100% sure though.

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