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Deluge of Fake Mac App Store Reviews
dback Assistant Boycott Yesterday I discovered a deluge of recent fake customer reviews for a number of top paid apps in the United States Mac App Store. (Each country has its own version of the App Store with separate reviews.) I've now checked the reviews for all of the current top 40 paid apps in the Mac App Store, and 8 of those apps have a large number of fake reviews during the period of June 11 through July 19.
If a single developer purchased all of the fake reviews listed, it would cost $1152.88 plus tax, which is a bit pricey but still well within many advertising budgets. One thing is clear, however: Apple has completely failed to prevent, detect, or remove this deluge of fake reviews in the Mac App Store. Jeff Johnson( My apps, PayPal.Me, Mastodon) Articles index Previous: Amazon Web Services dark patterns
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