Does the yelp algorithm shadow ban VPN users? I understand that yelp doesn’t disclose its algorithm, but what would be your observations as user?
Good question. Yelp doesn’t shadow ban. Their algorithm might think you are a bot and puts you in the “not recommend” section of the review, where your review isn’t rated. Additionally, if you have a bunch of people using VPNs and they like your post, even if you don’t use a VPN to post your review, the algorithm might think you are trying to solicit likes in a fake way. This forces your review to be put in that “not recommended” section. We CHOSE not be rated on Yelp after sending clear messages to certain businesses we put on notice. They didn’t like their one star review.
I use a VPN at Starbucks because they have an open wifi. I haven’t noticed anything different.
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As far as I can tell, as a networking-degreed engineer, yes Yelp does.
I use a VPN for everything I do online. When a service doesn’t allow VPN use, I drop the service. When an employer says their hiring process app needs me to drop my VPN, I drop my interest in their job.
So I notice when a website starts doing shady shit to my connection.
Like dropping my packets, rejecting my packets, denying me access to their CDN, denying me access to their web servers, denying me access to their authentication portals. I don’t care enough, to dig into it with a protocol analyzer or Wireshark, I just drop those companies.
The Yelp app never works when I’m on a vpn
I have never been able to use Yelp. At the moment I am blocked because I use VPN. However, before that I tried leaving a review several times. Yelp lied about the review being accepted, but it was ignored. I then left another review through a family member’s account, and that didn’t work either. I personally am surprised anyone uses the website and don’t understand how it got popular. I think with certain businesses, many negative reviews are simply blocked entirely for some sort of incompetence reasons by the Yelp company.
Older post but I’ll add this. I’m trying the free version of Proton VPM and see that my access is now blocked for Yelp. I’ll look to see if Proton has exclusions for the websites I select and if that works. It’s probably not even an option. It’s all new to me.
Help web version won’t load if I’m on VPN. I need to pause it to access.
Good to know. I would think that’s the way it should be. I’m wondering if it could be one of several factors in the yelp algorithm? Reddit appears to be burying this? Reddit not the same place after IPO.
You would have to do split tunneling to make it work with VPN enabled. Unfortunately ProtonVPN doesn’t do split tunneling. They have another workaround with Wireguard, but I’m not sure how to set it up.