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Go to the popular third-party apps that are getting killed and scroll past the RIP messages for latest reviews and you will see a lot of one word 5-star reviews. Are those suspicious as well? No, that's just what people do.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.andrewshu....

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.laurenceda...

I think it's frivolous that people in that thread (and here) take this at face value.



I clicked your first link and scrolled for one whole minute.

0(literally zero, not "few") one word 5-star reviews found.

You might want to clarify what you actually meant.


Same here, and it's not region-targeted (I'm not from US/EU). This is borderline FUD.


> 0(literally zero, not "few")

Admittedly I included reviews like "Great app" and "Good. " but if we're strictly going on one word only:

"Awesome."

""

"Great!"

"Perfect"

"Works"

"Great"

"Perfect"

""

Not sure why that's a requirement though. Isn't the point that the reviews are low effort or is one word exactly indicative of something? If I bought fake reviews I would expect a tiny bit higher standard than that.

Edit: HN stripping emojis but they were thumb ups.


Especially people HERE on this site.




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