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RataNova on May 26, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google shared my phone number

Terrifying how easy it is to weaponize Google's ecosystem against small businesses like that

throwaway2037 on May 26, 2025 [–]

Wasn't this Yelp's business strategy for a while? I'm unsure if that finally changed.

genewitch on May 29, 2025 | [–]

Yelp was pay to have bad reviews removed, even if the reviews were possibly put there by yelp to facilitate extortion.

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