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Your comment made me go lookup my old reviews. It's crazy, most of them were deleted. I would have expected to receive some kind of notification. I thought I c
by 6DM 3y ago
Your comment made me go lookup my old reviews. It's crazy, most of them were deleted. I would have expected to receive some kind of notification.
I thought I could sift through the rubble to discern fake from real but now I know Amazon reviews are absolutely worthless.
- happosai 3y agoWelcome to the world of enshittification of platforms.
- nomilk 3y agoWonder if we could make a browser extension that stores and presents amazon reviews. Could be useful to fill gaps on other sites too, for example when an uploader turns off comments on youtube. It would be a pretty big middle finger to amazon if the primary site for amazon seller reviews was not actually amazon, but a third party site/app.
- ReactiveJelly 3y agoYeah I've been wanting to have that "comment on anything" for a while. It's possible in technical theory. But sharing the comments would be hard. Federation might work. Spam moderation could be hard. And most websites refuse to go into iframes, so your options are limited to browser extensions, SOCKS proxies, and Opera Mini style apps that re-render the page. Which means you'll get less than a percent of a percent of people to use it.
- flir 3y agoDitto. I imagined it like leaving a post-it note on a page. If you found a fix for a product you could leave a note on the company's FAQ page. Problem is spam, in all it forms. Can you imagine political pages?
- joshspankit 3y agoThis has been floated out a couple of times, but there’s one more factor you’ve missed: The companies really want comments/reviews done by a platform they control and they will fight against 3rd party methods.
- shiroiuma 3y agoIf it's done as a browser extension, the way Keepa is (it's used to monitor price history on amazon.com), there's absolutely nothing the companies can do about it.
- joshspankit 3y agoTactics that have been used against similar tools: - Changing the generated HTML so that the extensions selectors no longer grab the right data (this becomes a cat and mouse game and there’s a non-zero chance that the extension authors tap out, especially if there’s not enough money to sustain the workload) - Filing nuisance complaints (DMCA is a standard one here, but there are lots of others) - Filing a copyright lawsuit in court - Filing other court lawsuits (lost income, slander, etc) In many cases the business knows they are fighting a losing battle but all they need is more resources, more time, or more patience.
- shiroiuma 3y agoYeah, we already have a few extensions similar to this for viewing price history, such as Keepa. I use this one all the time since prices jump around so much; when I look at a product page on Amazon, Keepa inserts a big window with a price graph and other pickable info.