• DigitalPaperTrail@kbin.social
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    I’ve gotten into the habit of never buying anything from Amazon before first running it through a review analyzer. I used to use reviewmeta, but that stopped being maintained, so I had to switch over to fakespot.

    it increases the hassle and amount of time to make a decision, but I’ve run into too many situations like yours. And it’s enlightening how many products get fail or bad ratings after being analyzed. I’ve just started ignoring a lot of things with more than 10k-ish reviews. even if I know the product is good despite the manipulation, I don’t want to encourage it further with a purchase

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      I’ve gotten into the habit of never buying anything from Amazon

      FTFY. I don’t even have an account there.

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        I only use it for 2 dollar Amazon prime video + gaming sub that I got when Apple App Store glitched.

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        It’s some ML/AI thing that analyzes the review content.

        I honestly have no idea how accurate it is either, but I guess if it gives a strong ranking back you’d probably be best to take that into consideration.

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          to add to this, it uses that to check for patterns it already knows in the reviews themselves, and also goes into each account that submitted a review and checks their account history as well for recognized patterns.

          there’s lots of stuff it picks up on, like one small example being if it spots a group of accounts that all reviewed only the same items around the same times, using similar sentence structures, though that’s a really obvious one