Went to Google Play to complain about Hulu. I noticed Google advertising that over 300 reviews had the verbatim quote “watch and movies that you love”. It’s always confusing that buggy corporate apps have >95% 5 star reviews until you see that the majority are just completely fake, and no one cares or is doing anything about it.

  • Godort@lemm.eeEnglish
    772·
    6 months ago

    The only use reviews have is to make sure that the app youre downloading is most likely the original and not a malicious lookalike.

    Artificial content has poisoned the web to the point that adding “reddit” to the end of google searches so that you could get real human content was commonplace.

    I miss the days where you had to learn HTML if you wanted to share your opinions online.

    • dan@upvote.auEnglish
      5·
      6 months ago

      adding “reddit” to the end of google search

      As if there’s no astroturfing on Reddit :) there’s plenty of companies in the comments there, posts promoting particular brands or products that get to the front page, etc.

      • Godort@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        6 months ago

        Its especially bad these days to the point where im not even sure how to find good results anymore, but 5 years ago things were much better (or at least astroturfing was way less common).