My favorites are reviews on the manufacturers own site. Oh wow! 480 5-star ratings out of 487?!
Look at that, the most expensive one is best rated!
Do you have an example? What makes it unbelievable? What if a product is legitimately that good?
Re:Amazon Reviews: How We Spot the Fakes
by matthewmacleod on Saturday May 14, 2016 @06:48AM
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It's not. No product is ever that good, simply because every product occasionally fails and some of your customers are awful.
Re:Amazon Reviews: How We Spot the Fakes
by wineisfine on Friday May 13, 2016 @04:37PM
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True. The worst are VPN reviews though. Thats a total other league of amateur companies actually to be reviewed. Hosting companies, well its more clear who are the big players and such. vPN is a shady world - who knows who is really logging what - etc.
That's why you create a mesh route of various VPN providers. VPN provider 1 knows that you are using it to talk to other VPNs. VPN provider 2 knows that some VPN customer at VPN provider 1 is talking to website X. All the red tape and technical debt should prevent any major problems, if you know what I mean.
I personally just use Usenet for whatever people use VPNs for, I think. If I were doing something that needed to be kept from the NSA, I guess I would use Tor. Or postcards covertly hidden under rocks in public parks or whatever ;)
Then there's the state of video game reviews, but that's a whole 'nother kettle of fish. Double so when mobile apps are involved.