After the app rating was down to about 2.8 stars on Google Play Store recently, it is now at 4.1 stars. Latest ratings seem to be from September 2022 though.
Looks like they’ve deleted all the 1-star ratings that had been recently added.
How come they delete 1 star reviews for review bombing, but clearly 5 star bot reviews are fair game?
because the company benefits from those.
Anyone tried review bombing with 5 star reviews and scathing comments to see if their system kicks in to remove all fake 5 star reviews in the last x hours? Or is this a manual removal of reviews they do?
Netherlands:
It seems to me like it’s the US which is severely lacking in customer protections, allowing the Playstore to make deals with Reddit to fudge the ratings.
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2.9 in uk. Most reviews i see are negative towards the app not the service. So i think it would be wrong for google to adjust the scores.
2.7 in Germany
Although honestly, who cares
just checked, yupp 2.7.
2.7 from Canada, just adjusted my review and said about 300 1 star reviews were helpful too
It is very very important to log in to your local Play Store and mark all the reviews you consider helpful…
Not for me
Although it is higher than it used to be
One of the reasons I am still actively trying to DeGoogle all my shit.
If you want to make some similar changes here are some suggestions:
YouTube : PeerTube
Chrome : FireFox with “Hardened Profile” or another browser like LibreWolf (also try to setup uBlock that blocks javascript/3rd party apps by default)
Windows : Linux Mint
Gmail : ProtonMail
Built in Password Manager : Locally Stored Password Manager
I get not all of them are directly Google but this will help block out a lot of the tracking that they do even if you aren’t logged into their website.
Peertube is quite bad. I would suggest using Newpipe until it improves, because switching over to Peertube from YouTube means you won’t find almost any content anymore.
That means people will switch back to YouTube. So using Newpipe is better I believe. Even though it would be great if everyone started uploading to peertube instead. But people who make videos on YouTube seem to be doing it for the money, so not likely they will enjoy Peertube.
Fair, but I also planned to upload videos there. You aren’t kidding though. The instance I joined is all Blender videos lol
Yeah I tried it for a bit but I ended up seeing really low intelligence conspiracy videos.
I don’t mind good conspiracies like 9/11, but there are so many really shitty ones.
Conspiracy that borders the line of truth and fiction is generally interesting. I hate how modern conspiracy blends in with crap like “q” and stuff like that. For me it’s always been about that subtle mystery and not really about trying to localize my hate towards a specific group or organization.
Yeah exactly, same for me. But I think the easiest way to discredit all conspiracy theories is to fill the entire space with really idiotic ones.
It’s tough because conspiracy does happen. If we began a plot against someone else it would absolutely be a conspiracy. The problem is everyone does that all the time. So not everything is an interesting conspiracy, it’s just normal life.
Yeah plotting against eachother is called “politics” in business and it’s called “strategy” in politics. :)
I’m surprised anyone would want to host something like peertube. Even picture hosting for randos can get expensive real fast.
3.0 is what I see. However I scrolled through hundreds of reviews sorted by “most relevant” and they were nearly all 1 star.
3 for me. North America.
What I find hysterical is that there seems to be more one star ratings than five stars!
2.6 even.
I see 3.0 and my 1 start review from June is still up. I see one from July 8th this year as well.
The ratings are region-dependent, it doesn’t have a 4.1 worldwide.
It’s a 2.7 for me here in Canada
2.7 stars for me, Germany as well, but with English UI.
2.4 for me in Sweden. Do I get a prize for most accurate rating so far?
