Tech Review Sites and Payola

cheesecake23 writes "How often have you read a hardware review and thought: 'No way was that an honest opinion, the reviewer was bought'—? The Daily Tech has gone undercover to find out whether or not payola is accepted among the 35 largest online English-language hardware review sites. Questions asked and answered — Q: How many sites would take money (or sell ads) in exchange for a product review? A: 20 percent. Q: How many sites would additionally consider selling an Editor's Choice award? A: None. Q: Were any regions of the world more corrupt than others? A: No, it was 20-25% almost everywhere. Q: Does it depend on the size or age of the site? A: RTFA. Although no bad actors were explicitly unmasked, the article contains enough information to make a whitelist of quite a few good guys."

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Re:The beef

[Fizzl]

The problem is, they are shit stories tossed up with lots of chocolate and caramel.
When you read the summary, it sounds awesomely cool and makes you want to read the linked articles. Further inspection always turns out the shit inside. Nowadays I recognize Rolands stories just be reading the summary: "Oh cool. This is interesting. Wait... Oh, yeah, another RP shit story."

Roland should be shot, cut and buried in a forest. I fucking hate when I get excited over nothing and end up giving the fucker 1c because I clicked through to his blog.