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eth0up ◴[] No.45110933[source]
The next class action needs to address the anticompetitive procedure of artificially protecting shit products by deleting critical customer reviews.

In my Prime account, 90 percent of my reviews are positive, but because I've left several scathing, unapologetic negative reviews for products that shouldn't exist, all my reviews are now placed in eternal limbo. None of my reviews ever actually post.

For the reviews that posted, three months later when the product stops working, Amazon prohibits me from updating the original review. The FTC is well aware of this too.

Keep this in mind when evaluating a product using reviews as a metric. And further note the egregious usurpation of the review content search function being replaced by Rufus, the world's foremost most worthless heap of artificially generated product deception.

Amazon is indefensibly sinister.

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1. bn-l ◴[] No.45116208[source]
Why are the incentivised reviews always positive? And usually gushing also.
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2. eth0up ◴[] No.45121681[source]
Not sure, but anytime I see green, I run.

At least they have some small fragment of decency in highlighting the Vine reviews. In green.