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I am a user of Vinegar and Wipr so I am very curious now: why would the makers of these apps have paid for fake reviews? Did they hope to increase revenue? Or i
by janandonly 2y ago
I am a user of Vinegar and Wipr so I am very curious now: why would the makers of these apps have paid for fake reviews? Did they hope to increase revenue? Or is this a way for competitors to weaponize upvotes and thereby slander their good names in the long run?
- lapcat 2y ago> I am a user of Vinegar and Wipr so I am very curious now: why would the makers of these apps have paid for fake reviews? This seems unlikely to me, that developers of 8 apps decided independently, at the same time to buy fake reviews. The simultaneity and similarity of all the reviews suggest a single source.
- InsideOutSanta 2y ago>why would the makers of these apps have paid for fake reviews? They would not. Somebody else did, and we can only speculate about the reasons.
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- allenu 2y agoI follow the author of those apps on Mastodon and he posted recently that he's been flooded by fake 5-star reviews and has reported them to Apple, so it doesn't sound like he paid for them.