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Agreed, when an app I don't love does this I now go out of my way to always click the "I love the app" button and then give a negative (honest) review.

OTOH if I developed an app I'd probably do the same thing :/

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Yep, I absolutely can't stand this design pattern either, but I ended up using it as well. I would advise that the best way is to actually respect the 'never show again' button. One pop-up isn't too annoying, but if an app asks me after I tell it to f off, I'm damn well going straight to the store and leaving a 1 star. It does work, but make sure it's the least annoying it can be. E.G. in a shopping app, don't show the rating pop-up in the middle of checkout, wait for the user to finish their transaction.

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