Amazon says it’s permanently banned 600 Chinese brands for review fraud

Re:Amazon says it’s permanently banned 600 Chinese brands fo... by gentleman11 on Sunday September 19, 2021 @12:29AM (#28581702)

I don’t know why they waited so long to try and fix this. Their reputation online, 5 years ago, was golden. People were obsessed with the company. Now, nobody will buy anything important without going to a fake review detector site first and then they might still chicken out because they worry it will be an illegitimate item (Eg, fake windows licenses were a big problem 2 years ago last I checked)

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Re:Amazon says it’s permanently banned 600 Chinese brands fo... by irrational on Sunday September 19, 2021 @12:36AM (#28581738)

Wait, are fake review detector sites a real thing? What is an example of one?

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Re:Amazon says it’s permanently banned 600 Chinese brands fo... by function_seven on Sunday September 19, 2021 @12:48AM (#28581789)

The couple that I know of are https://reviewmeta.com and https://www.fakespot.com/analyzer

Looks like ReviewMeta's creator has left the project, but the site still seems to work. Fakespot really wants you to use their app or browser extension, but the link I pasted allows you to ad-hoc check item URLs.

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Re:Amazon says it’s permanently banned 600 Chinese brands fo... by Farfromthehood on Sunday September 19, 2021 @01:51AM (#28582015)

FakeSpot has purposefully limited prior functionality from their site and only allows those features via installing their browser plugin.

They really want that browsing history. So perhaps use a private tab.

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Re:Amazon says it’s permanently banned 600 Chinese brands fo... by sam345 on Sunday September 19, 2021 @12:47AM (#28581782)

https://reviewmeta.com/

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