How Google is killing independent sites like ours::And why you shouldn’t trust product reviews from big media publishers ranking at the top of Google.

  • Makeitstop@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Lying about testing a product in order to get people to buy it so you can get your affiliate revenue sounds like fraud to me. Seems like the kind of thing that should lead to lawsuits and potentially criminal charges. Not that anyone would actually try to do something about this or most other problems facing consumers.

    • lad@programming.dev
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      9 months ago

      Except they may not even get affiliate payments, just have an agreement and get income from traffic