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Re:The company behind Adblock Plus is acquiring micropayment... by mifreewil on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @05:22PM (#14045742)
I don't think this is true. This may have happened in the past, but I don't think they do this, at least currently.

https://www.yelp.com/advertiser_faq

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Re:The company behind Adblock Plus is acquiring micropayment... by Flammy on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @05:33PM (#14045827)
It may no longer be happening. Googling "Yelp extortion" will get you plenty of news hits, but this may have caused them to change their practices.
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Re:The company behind Adblock Plus is acquiring micropayment... by Throwaway23412 on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @06:20PM (#14046194)
It's actually extraordinary how many "Yelp extortion" claims I've seen without a single bit of proof. It's not at all difficult to record a telephone conversation with a Yelp representative.

I've seen some thoughts about this:

- Some of the businesses claiming "Yelp extortion" actually deserve their bad reviews.

- Some of the businesses claiming "Yelp extortion" posted fake positive reviews. Unbeknownst to them, Yelp bots automatically detected and removed the fake reviews. Later, after rejecting a call from a Yelp rep asking to advertise, the business owner decides to check their Yelp page and sees that their fake reviews are gone, incorrectly deducing that Yelp is extorting them.

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Re:The company behind Adblock Plus is acquiring micropayment... by dhimes on Thursday April 06, 2017 @08:16AM (#14049853)
It's not at all difficult to record a telephone conversation with a Yelp representative.

I was at Radio Shack just yesterday looking for a way to do this. They didn't have a solution. Also, it's illegal where I am unless I advertise it.

So if I were to get a call right now from somebody and needed to record it I'm not sure what to do. Any suggestions?

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Re:The company behind Adblock Plus is acquiring micropayment... by Throwaway23412 on Thursday April 06, 2017 @04:57PM (#14054531)
I personally use an app called TapeACall. You could also just put your call on loudspeaker and record it with another device.
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Re:The company behind Adblock Plus is acquiring micropayment... by eli on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @06:43PM (#14046354)
Google "chemtrails" you get lots of hits too.
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