Every single review site that you don’t pay to access is funded by shady conflicts of interest and perverted incentives. Yelp, BBB, Amazon, Wirecutter. The whol

Every single review site that you don’t pay to access is funded by shady conflicts of interest and perverted incentives. Yelp, BBB, Amazon, Wirecutter. The whole lot. Yeah some are worse than others. But every one of them is entangled in ways that Consumer Reports or the old Angie’s List aren’t. (Angie’s List later became just another marketing channel. Originally it was a subscription service, though I don’t remember if they were double dipping or not.)