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Firefox will have a built-in ‘fake reviews detector’ — Amazon is in trouble (mashable.com)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This right here. It should be illegal to do this. I discovered this I think last year and it blew my mind, it's straight up misleading the consumer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I avoid those as soon as I notice the signs, but I've found less and less instances over time (which is a relief since there used to be loads of pages like that). I thought I read somewhere it's against Amazon's own rules to do this. Not 100% sure though.