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> Note the reviews refer to all different stuff - phone chargers, arm slings, extension cord organisers. What a total shitshow. This is an exploit which has be
by duskwuff 4y ago
> Note the reviews refer to all different stuff - phone chargers, arm slings, extension cord organisers. What a total shitshow.
This is an exploit which has been abused for years -- as I understand it, Amazon sellers can list their products as a "variant" of another, often unrelated, product which is no longer available for sale. When they do so, their product inherits all of the reviews from the previous product, and no obvious indication is given that the other variant ever existed (because it's not available).
- phpisthebest 4y agoYep a "legit" example of this is Dymo, the Dymo 550 added DRM Paper (yes DRM paper) to the product, but they listed the 550 as a variant of the 450 which was not DRM, all of the great 450 reviews followed to the new 550 trash product that no one should ever buy...
- sdenton4 4y agoThis should be preeeetty trivial to build a classifier for... At least to reduce the need for human review to only the egregious examples.