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Re:Google Has Started Penalizing Mobile Websites with Intrus... by greglindahl on Thursday January 19, 2017 @09:55PM (#13441447)
Generally that survey result get discarded; one big trick used by many apps is to have surveys that distract you away from leaving negative results in the appstore or other places where the survey result actually counts.
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Re:Google Has Started Penalizing Mobile Websites with Intrus... by mulmen on Friday January 20, 2017 @04:26AM (#13442579)
I'm not sure I understand, they proxy the reviews?
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Re:Google Has Started Penalizing Mobile Websites with Intrus... by vmlinuz on Friday January 20, 2017 @05:21AM (#13442746)
Seen it a few times, although not so much recently... An app would pop up a rating dialog, asking you to give it 1-5 stars. If you chose 5 stars, it would send you on to the Play Store to leave your rating - if you chose 1-4, it would instead give you an in-app feedback form. They couldn't force you to actually leave a 5 star rating, but it was pretty dodgy anyway.
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