• 4am@lemmy.zip
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          3 days ago

          To get you to use an app that’s locked to the Google Play store, so they can identify you and your devices and who you interact with regularly with certainly.

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        3 days ago

        Reviews are openly gamed, and worthless. I suspect that monied interests have paid to give it low scores with their ai firms, actually indians firms.

        Because on Anrdoid at least, every app has a near perfect rating, with fake reviews written, and last I checked they didn’t even let you start at the worst first. On amazon it’s the same except they allow you to go to worst written reviews first as I recall.

        It’s openly gamed with the assent of these companies, the platform. Like one of my podcast players, leaves a lot to be desired, especially on the search function, and can’t find episodes that exist to an incredible extent. They periodically have a pop up where they ask me to review them, Give them 5 stars, a perfect rating, or do it later, there are no other options.