Plus: Amazon announced last week that two fake review brokers were arrested.

Yelp has started publicly naming and shaming businesses that pay for reviews. The review site’s new index documents businesses offering everything from a crisp $100 bill for leaving the best review to a $400 Home Depot gift card for a five-star review. It also lists every business whose reviews have ever been suspected of suspicious activity, like spamming the site with multiple reviews from a single IP address.

    • @lolrightythen@lemmy.world
      11•1 year ago

      Yeah! Of course I didn’t click the link, but 3rd party delivery businesses are rarely more than rent-seekers. Hating on one of their restaurant clients is bad for their bad business.

      *Yelp isn’t a delivery service, my b. Statement stands in a smaller context.