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Re:“Amazon’s choice” recommends fraudulent listing by mox1 on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @12:36PM (#20393610)
This actually sums up a lot of the problems with amazon in one nice little listing.

Edit:

This is actually more fun: https://www.amazon.com/stores/node/13968870011?_encoding=UTF...

All of the product have either 5 stars with hundreds of reviews or 0-1 starts with tens of reviews...

Re:“Amazon’s choice” recommends fraudulent listing by mikestew on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @03:15PM (#20395534)
Raise your hand if you couldn't knock out a prototype algorithm over a weekend when handed that set of data. FFS, with something that obvious, your "machine learning" could be a bevy of if statements.
Re:“Amazon’s choice” recommends fraudulent listing by watermelongunn on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @03:25PM (#20395616)
This is why the Fakespot extension is so great – that page is littered with "F" grades, and I would have never considered purchasing any of it.
Re:“Amazon’s choice” recommends fraudulent listing by bryced on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @02:13PM (#20394895)
yeah here is another one. why didn't they take down the whole seller? https://www.amazon.com/Charger-Braided-Charging-Syncing-Comp... edit: put correct link