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Massachusetts
1 review
13 helpful votes
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Your site is unusable
December 7, 2016

I have visited cnet for almost 2 decades and while they used to have good content all they offer now is an infinite variety of obnoxious ads that do everything possible to distract the user. Maybe you need a few adults to guide the kids who assemble this crap.

Date of experience: December 7, 2016
Delaware
3 reviews
0 helpful votes
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Reviews+
December 12, 2016

I mainly come here for reviews, those are pretty decent. Concerning the downloads - got some drives couple of times without any problems. Yet its not the experience to say all the files are perfectly safe.

Date of experience: December 11, 2016
India
7 reviews
0 helpful votes
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Informative site
March 18, 2021

Amazing website for tech related information. The articles are based on latest trends and they are so informative. CNET provides tech product reviews, news, prices, videos, forums and more. I really like this site.

Date of experience: March 17, 2021
California
2 reviews
3 helpful votes
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Allen tyner also know as sailor bacon or sailor allen is an admin for their site gamefaqs.com and has been charged with dozens of sexual misconduct cases with kids and has even brought on friends he knows as mods and groomed young users there.

Date of experience: March 25, 2022
Texas
1 review
3 helpful votes
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When I tried to search the reviews, the site became absolutely unusable. Elements kept bouncing around so that filters I had no interest in would be applied (while I could never get the ONE I cared about to activate). Within 5 minutes the tab it was in was using 3.5 GB of memory (for comparison Amazon was at 650 MB after 15 minutes of active, successful searching).

Date of experience: February 2, 2018
Canada
1 review
10 helpful votes
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Used to get clean unbiased information on the latest tech. Now it's high end cars and sous vide? Bursting with ads, with articles that shift position while you are looking at them. Sometimes I'll select the wrong article because its 'shifts' right when I select it. Articles are reposted as new when they are not. A few good articles for sure, but now it's mostly over commercialized crap.

Date of experience: September 1, 2018
Virginia
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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I find Sitejabber a useful tool when buying products. Being able to read about people's experience with a company, I am able to weigh up all the different angles to buying an item. It can give me an insight to how the company functions, from how easy it is to order, the product itself, how the company performs about returns and hints and tips

Date of experience: August 25, 2019
GB
1 review
0 helpful votes
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The new cnet is rubbish cant search for reviews please go back to old cnet format
The new cnet is rubbish cant search for reviews please go back to old cnet format
The new cnet is rubbish cant search for reviews please go back to old cnet format

Date of experience: August 2, 2023
Pakistan
4 reviews
3 helpful votes
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Internet
September 24, 2019

The internet is the great equalizer. In business specifically, it has leveled the playing field. Anyone can start a money-making online businessanyone with a computer, that is. But here's the thing: virtually no technical experience is needed. Today there are plenty of tools you can use to build an online business that makes the technical work a lot easier than it was in the past.

Date of experience: September 23, 2019
Florida
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I trusted their review and it contain ed misleading information. It said that a lot of the features of the JBL 5 speaker were the same as JBL 4 and that it had speakerphone capabilities like its predecessor. It does not.

Date of experience: February 25, 2021
Pakistan
4 reviews
8 helpful votes
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Online dealing
August 29, 2019

Online dealings do go wrong, I have been involve in one or 2 investments online that I lost money, I once used this platform too and I didn't see results, I was angry and had to talk to a friend of mine, He is a retired police officer who talked to me about hiring a PI to help me recover the funds, At first I never believed it would work but since he was in New york. I had to hire him and I wasn't disappointed. He asked for the login to my profile and was able to trace through and trace it to their master account

Date of experience: August 28, 2019
CJ G.
Australia
8 reviews
118 helpful votes
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I love this site. I am far from being an expert in anything related to computing, but I get by. This site provides good reviews on the products out there and interesting articles to help consumers make informed choices. They are a hub for useful downloads too.

Date of experience: August 10, 2015
New York
2 reviews
5 helpful votes
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For techno-no-nothings like me, this site is super. Anything you can imagine in the electronic/software/gadget/techno world can be found on cnet.com. Product reviews, ratings, how-to-use-product videos and best prices at available stores - all this and more is there for you to do your "pre-shopping" research. These folks make me look smart!

Date of experience: December 3, 2010
New Jersey
14 reviews
64 helpful votes
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When ever I need to download software I get it from cnet.com. I like it because they make sure the files are clean and also you can get a lot of customer reviews before you download anything. Some of the best utilities I have found I found on Cnet. I also find their product reviews for electronics to be very good as well. I can't say enough about them.

Date of experience: May 11, 2011
Ohio
3 reviews
11 helpful votes
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Like Kevin said, this used to be a reliable, trustworthy site. Now, their reviews are untrustworthy and often manipulated. I've spent hours removing malware from infected downloads which they said were malware-free.

Date of experience: November 20, 2013
2 reviews
9 helpful votes
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For buying a big screen TV, good content, difficult to navigate - I just embarked on the process of buying a new HDTV and found that Cnet.com was a valuable, but difficult to navigate, source of information. While they have reviewed nearly all of the top selling products in significant depth, they have failed to create an easy to use summary section that is constantly updated with new reviews and updates. I often found myself reading and re-reading reviews because they were in multiple locations or because they did not provide a summary view of most recent reviews. I just want them to give me their top-5 recommendations by size or by specs and let me compare and contrast, instead of giving me hundreds of reviews.

My sense is that they are conflicted by all of the advertising on their site, and that they can't be as candid or strong in recommendations as they'd like to be.

Date of experience: February 8, 2008
Texas
1 review
7 helpful votes
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I used to really trust this site but not since last software download installed nasty bloatware on my Win 7 PC. I will never download from them again unless I have to. Unfortunately, this bad experience makes me wonder about their tech reviews too.

Date of experience: June 13, 2013
Virginia
4 reviews
4 helpful votes
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Cnet is a site that informs you on software and tech. It has all types of software some free some free to try others buy now ect. The best thing is that you can read not only user and company reviews. It has the number of downloads and non bias comments. The downloads are always safe and reliable. It is easy to navigate through and no gimmicks. Free to register. This is the site i use to download anything.

Date of experience: December 28, 2013
Canada
18 reviews
12 helpful votes
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I use cnet to find freeware (not trial version) or to check reviews about software I propose to buy. Each item shows how many users have downloaded it and their reviews.If you need help with how to, cnet has tutoring videos and text, detailed instructions, on many topics. I trust the site and rely upon staff reviews.

Date of experience: April 9, 2014
California
1 review
10 helpful votes
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I have used cnet.com for sometime and have always been pleased with their product reviews on electronics. However, if you start a search for, lets say (software) at the bottom, on some of the result webpages they have (Sponsored Links) using these links your on your own and they are not endorsed by cnet.

Date of experience: June 20, 2011

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