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Re:FTC Brings First Case Challenging Fake Paid Reviews on an... by elektor on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @04:01PM (#19258276)
I recommend that you copy and paste the Amazon link to https://reviewmeta.com/ and https://www.fakespot.com/ to see how many of the reviews are actually legit.
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Re:FTC Brings First Case Challenging Fake Paid Reviews on an... by vanzorn on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @05:04PM (#19258742)
Was just about to post fakespot.com -- I've used it to great benefit in spotting some of my purchases that didn't have a reasonably priced, stand-out name brand to choose from (HDMI -> RCA audio splitters, or as mentioned in this thread, good bluetooth wireless earbuds.

Amazon is consistently allowing multi-hundred unverified 5 star reviews for new products to persist, and my wife and I are starting to drift to other, more reputable resources. After a decade+ of Prime membership, this is a really disappointing betrayal of trust.

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Re:FTC Brings First Case Challenging Fake Paid Reviews on an... by r00fus on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @09:39PM (#19260410)
Any browser extensions that use reviewmeta or fakespot so that I don’t have to cut and paste the URL?

Ideally I’d like to simply filter out all fake reviews and recalculate the stars rating.

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Re:FTC Brings First Case Challenging Fake Paid Reviews on an... by HelloMcFly on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @11:05AM (#19264054)
Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fakespot-revi...

Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fakespot-analyze-f...

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Re:FTC Brings First Case Challenging Fake Paid Reviews on an... by ReviewMeta on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @10:00AM (#19263608)
https://reviewmeta.com/blog/extensions/
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Re:FTC Brings First Case Challenging Fake Paid Reviews on an... by anitil on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @05:13PM (#19258807)
Spoiler: It gets an 'F'. Color me surprised.
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