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Overview

HowStuffWorks has a rating of 3.75 stars from 12 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally satisfied with their purchases. HowStuffWorks ranks 2nd among How To sites.

How would you rate HowStuffWorks?
Top Positive Review

“A go-to for everyone”

Mayves P.
12/10/20

The website is so useful and game changer especially for the younger generation when they just move out and have so much stuff to learn.

Top Critical Review

“Echo chamber”

Ava S.
2/24/22

I joined the site and found loads of mean girls on here reporting anyone who does not agree with them. I talked about an herbal tea that was helping me recover from my health problems and because they hadn't heard of it in western countries I was attacked viciously and I mean viciously. I was reported to the site by multiple mean girls who mobilized to shut me up and some women became downright hysterical. It's like being in high school and the site is run by the mean girls. Even long time members who saw what was done to me admitted it was extreme and they were considering leaving. I got nasty messages from members and from the site administration. I left. I was sharing my experience to try help others and that's not allowed. Second, the site is watching everything you write about saying that it worked for you so they can develop products to sell to you later. This is simply a very large market research site and we give them all the data they need to make money off of our medical or mental health issues. I found the site predatory. You watch. They owners of this site will sell you "cures" and "treatments" later on down the line under a different company name. This isn't a site setup just to help. They need to make money somehow and this site is their market research arm.

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Thumbnail of user mayvesp
3 reviews
0 helpful votes
December 10th, 2020

The website is so useful and game changer especially for the younger generation when they just move out and have so much stuff to learn.

Thumbnail of user davidhb
4 reviews
12 helpful votes
March 9th, 2014

When I don't understand something, I just go there. Used for more than 10 years and I am still happy:)
Give it a try!

Thumbnail of user ikerv1
3 reviews
228 helpful votes
April 3rd, 2014

Excellent website. You can find all kind of tips about anything, it saved my life a few times :)

Thumbnail of user ianm11
140 reviews
749 helpful votes
June 27th, 2011

I have found this site to be very educational and a reliable source. In-fact, its probably more trustworthy than Wikipedia as professionals are the ones who edit hotstuffworks.com. So if you have a question about life, health, technology, science, etc. Then this site is worth looking at.

Thumbnail of user dimitriosp
10 reviews
27 helpful votes

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