News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:UK businesses caught buying five-star Google reviews by ficklepickle on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @03:56AM (#26409272)
Imagine you operate in an industry where these reviews are not permitted. You have your regulator telling you to remove them with no means of actually achieving that.

I saw this first-hand in finance. They ended up "disavowing" the listings so they had no control over them. Now the individual offices can't set their hours, but I guess it made compliance happy.

Re:UK businesses caught buying five-star Google reviews by pjc50 on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @08:59AM (#26411252)
> industry where these reviews are not permitted.

That should be Google's problem, if it wasn't above the law.

(Which country/industry?)

Re:UK businesses caught buying five-star Google reviews by ficklepickle on Thursday March 11, 2021 @02:50AM (#26421433)
Consumer finance, Canada