<story><title>FTC Puts Hundreds of Businesses on Notice about Fake Reviews</title><url>https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2021/10/ftc-puts-hundreds-businesses-notice-about-fake-reviews-other</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wly_cdgr</author><text>Stop trying to make no passwords happen. It won&amp;#x27;t happen</text></item><item><author>locallost</author><text>Generally I&amp;#x27;d say product reviews are one of those ideas like passwords that work but don&amp;#x27;t survive introduction to the general public and mass use. The problems of authenticity are obvious, but I&amp;#x27;ve also noticed that people who rely on word of mouth from their friends and colleagues are generally happier. And why wouldn&amp;#x27;t they be? A colleague tells you this e.g. monitor is perfect for your line of work so you get it and find it also good. No fuss, nothing nerve wracking, no time wasted. Compared with reading through dozens of reviews that even when authentic raise good points that are maybe entirely irrelevant to you.&lt;p&gt;I try to buy stuff in shops now. It&amp;#x27;s more expensive only if my time spent on reading reviews is free. And these days it&amp;#x27;s not even more expensive to buy in real shops anyway.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>threeseed</author><text>It sort of has happened for Apple users.&lt;p&gt;For all sites whenever you signup for a website a random password is generated. And then when you re-visit the site you use FaceID&amp;#x2F;TouchID to automatically pre-populate the password. At that point it really isn&amp;#x27;t a password in the traditional sense.&lt;p&gt;And for an increasing number of sites it bypasses this step entirely and just lets me use FaceID&amp;#x2F;TouchID.</text></comment>
<story><title>FTC Puts Hundreds of Businesses on Notice about Fake Reviews</title><url>https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2021/10/ftc-puts-hundreds-businesses-notice-about-fake-reviews-other</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wly_cdgr</author><text>Stop trying to make no passwords happen. It won&amp;#x27;t happen</text></item><item><author>locallost</author><text>Generally I&amp;#x27;d say product reviews are one of those ideas like passwords that work but don&amp;#x27;t survive introduction to the general public and mass use. The problems of authenticity are obvious, but I&amp;#x27;ve also noticed that people who rely on word of mouth from their friends and colleagues are generally happier. And why wouldn&amp;#x27;t they be? A colleague tells you this e.g. monitor is perfect for your line of work so you get it and find it also good. No fuss, nothing nerve wracking, no time wasted. Compared with reading through dozens of reviews that even when authentic raise good points that are maybe entirely irrelevant to you.&lt;p&gt;I try to buy stuff in shops now. It&amp;#x27;s more expensive only if my time spent on reading reviews is free. And these days it&amp;#x27;s not even more expensive to buy in real shops anyway.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>johanneskanybal</author><text>The only reason for (consumer) passwords you have to remember is lack of an accepted good universal id in general. Here in Sweden it&amp;#x27;s provided by the banks and has a 94% share of smartphone users, if you look east you have other bigger markets with similar stats. Most passwords already have disappeared or are disappearing, the laggard cases will catch up too, I&amp;#x27;d love a similar one for my &amp;quot;work persona&amp;quot;.</text></comment>