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Reddit has started posting purchased 5 star reviews on Apple Store, wouldn’t be surprised if they were doing on Android as well. This is illegal and you can voice your dissatisfaction with the FTC at the provided link.

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[–] Andojus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Only the evidence I put in my comments, all of the recent 5 star reviews have no constructive information in them other than a few random words.

They look really suspicious and the FTC would be able to verify their authenticity.

[–] PigglyWiggly@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

You put a lot more faith in the intellect of app reviewers than I put in any U.S. Federal Agency.

It’s more likely that people who use the official Reddit app are a few crayons short of a box, than it’s likely that Spez is up to some masterminded plan.

[–] Lakija@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I’ve seen a few of what they’re talking about. Sometimes there’ll be a couple random words that make no sense together at all. Or incomplete thoughts.

https://imgur.com/a/QDDcxk8

One of the most recent in the App Store:

Title: I’m going back to work on my Contents: We will have the opportunity

It’s weird.

[–] Andojus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I would agree with you except the actual reviews look really suspicious. They come in blocks of 2-3 next to each other and they are all nonsense. And there’s a fair amount of them.

If this were a highly regarded, honest company I would give them the benefit of the doubt. Having seen numerous examples of their dishonesty in the past month I would say this is par for course.

[–] Candelestine@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

A CEO of a business valued in the billions is unlikely to have mastermind plans to you? Sounds pretty naive to me.

[–] Bozicus@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

Someone posted a screenshot the other day with reviews that were incoherent in a way that only bots could achieve. I agree that there are borderline cases, but even eliminating those, there are some bots reviewing the Reddit app.