A pro-Palestinian app created to help consumers boycott Israeli products has gained traction on TikTok amid calls in Hebrew-language media for Google to ban it.
The free app, called “No Thanks,” was launched by Palestinian graduate student Ahmed Bashbash last November. Downloaded by 100,000 users within a month, the app enables consumers to scan product barcodes to determine if the item has connections to Israel.
By the start of April, “No Thanks” reported one million people had downloaded the app. Millions of users had viewed tikTok influencer videos promoting “No Thanks,” contributing to the app’s growth of 900,000 downloads in four months.
Holy crap that app has been review bombed like crazy on the Play store. Down to 2.0, claiming it uses your phone to make calls, kills your battery, etc. One even claiming it’s “trying to push it’s own agenda on you without letting you choose how to use for your own benefits” like wtf? The bots and trolls just need enough text to seem legitimate, I suppose.
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I think that’s another one. The current app is at 4.8
Play store link
This is the one you linked to, through my phone
Maybe it’s rapidly changing via bot/invalid review washing. A screenshot from 3 hours prior to your comment shows it at 4.3 but still 14k reviews
I think I’ve heard at some point that the review score there are region based. Different people may see different values based on where they are.
Scores are regional. I have 4.8 stars in a European country.
It’s 2.9 for me right now
2.0 now.
2.2 for me now. Clicking the ratings it warns me “ratings are based on recent reviews from your region by people using similar devices to you”. I didn’t check it before, just relayed other comments.