Re:Amazon disallows pointing out paid reviews
by serf on Thursday December 17, 2020 @07:30PM
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>Every single game on the Google Play store does this now, too.
it will be a problem until the transaction is A-B with the merchant.
as long as there is a central entity between the two profiting somehow (yelp,google play, amazon, ebay, etc), it'll always be gamed like that, hoping the central party stays willfully blind to the gaming of the rules.
And the central party will stay willfully blind without legislation -- it affects their profits.
it will be a problem until the transaction is A-B with the merchant.
as long as there is a central entity between the two profiting somehow (yelp,google play, amazon, ebay, etc), it'll always be gamed like that, hoping the central party stays willfully blind to the gaming of the rules.
And the central party will stay willfully blind without legislation -- it affects their profits.