There is a software company called Wondershare (
https://www.wondershare.com/ ) that publishes "reviews" of various categories of software. I've never bought from them, but their "reviews" keep popping up when I do Internet searches for reviews on vatious categories of software.
The latest was when I was looking for information about free digital signature certificate authorities. Wondershare published a review entitled "Need Free Digital Signature? Here are 6 Free Digital Signature Software." But out of the six, three are paid services that offer a [very] limited free trial, and one isn't a CA, it's an on-line forms creation site. I wrote to them to complain that the title of the article was false and misleading.
The first reply from Wondershare:
In line with your concern, Signx is a paid product. However, it provides a free trial of 5 signatures so customers can 'test-drive' before deciding to purchase. All these help customers make an informed purchase decision and avoid buying the wrong product for their needs.
So I wrote back, to reiterate that a brief trial period is not "free" service. Their second reply:
Thanks for the response.
It still offers free service for a short time though unlike other software which doesn't provide free trial and would ask for payment before you can use it.
Which, of course, doesn't actually address the issue that a limited trial period does not equate to "free," which means their article is still misleading.
This is not the first time I have caught Wondershare posting blatantly incorrect, if not intentionally false, information in their "reviews." I refuse to buy anything from them because I have learned that they can't be trusted.
Did I mention that the first product discussed in their review conveniently happens to be their product?
