“In exchange for my honest and unbiased review”

[ColbyJackRat]

I like that reviewers are required to put this on Amazon now, it lets me know which products not to buy.

[fallinghawks]

I wish we could filter these out of the review and rating results.

[nefitty]

Is this a thing now, linking to search results for a term? I saw this with image results for exploding hoverboards. I don't like it.

[matheweis]

It seems to have triggered the Google captcha for me...

[Jedd]

One of my (language) pet peeves is when someone opens with 'Honestly, ...'

When it's appropriate I suggest to them that everything they say without that prefix might therefore be assumed to be otherwise. I suggest 'Candidly' or 'Frankly' if they mean they're about to be blunt. Or just avoid any kind of qualification entirely. Usually I'm ignored, of course.

But this is a particularly unpleasant arrangement of words -- an inherent and obvious contradiction, whereby independence of bias is claimed in spite of, and in conjunction with, proof of bias.

I wonder at the kinds of readers (of reviews or otherwise) who find comfort in such a disclaimer.

[ghusbands]

It's a common idiom indicating straightforwardness. It does not imply a dishonesty in other sentences.

[verroq]

tbh smh fam

[afandian]

What is this meant to show? I just get a Google homepage.

EDIT: From a desktop browser it's a search results page for the given query.

[ghusbands]

A search for: site:amazon.com "in exchange for my honest and unbiased review"

[blairanderson]

well thats awkward.

[raus22]

"I received this product for free or at a discount in exchange for my honest and unbiased review."

Free OR at a discount.... I like the, "I don't care about anything I write" disclaimer :)

[leeoniya]

tangentially related:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1001250201

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1001388321

go to the actual product pages and read the full reviews, the excerpts on the above pages are weak sauce.