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Reviews for Fakespot Fake Amazon Reviews and eBay Sellers

Fakespot Fake Amazon Reviews and eBay Sellers by Fakespot

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Review by Firefox user 12253094
by Firefox user 12253094, 2 years ago
Really just agreeing with the most recent 1-star reviews. I wish to ask the Dev: do you realize ... and I'm not suggesting that you're not brilliant, honestly. It's just - I hate to see a once-very-popular add-on going this route.

I wish you'd re-think your decisions which resulted in a far more invasive experience and which have garnered some harsh criticism from formerly happy users. I know that you are not "forcing" anyone to do anything, and that's been your basic response of late... and we know that's true. BUT - if a person wishes to use your add-on you ARE enforcing a level of depth and breadth in.. umm... information gathering abilities.. which a growing number of people are quite concerned about.

Clearly you've many projects underway and this is perhaps just a legacy from a more addOn-friendly Firefox - but, if you care about this particular one - I hope you give it more thought.

Cheers - and - I do get it, really.
121 reviews
  • by ‎ hola, 2 days ago
    gggg
  • by tankexmortis, 3 days ago
    works great, wish i'd been using this ages ago. the one star reviews are either blatantly wrong (it 100% does work with adblock lmao) or paranoid about Mozilla collecting their data, which is hilariously silly when you consider how many people trust Google Chrome
  • by dlh, 6 days ago
  • by Nyaa, 7 days ago
    The addon works fine, the amount of people who live in tinfoil houses in the reviews isn't surprising. Yes, protect privacy, but don't go full nut tinfoil hat live in the woods level.

    A lot of their privacy policy is talking about data collected when using a Fakespot account which *isn't even required* to use this, it doesn't grab your Amazon or eBay credentials if some of you would do more than two seconds of reading.
  • by Kelemvor, 7 days ago
    Fakespot requires disabling your ad blocker! This is completely unacceptable. The add-on will not work correctly if you've got an ad-blocker such as ublock origin blocking spam and ads. It's too bad, as this is a good idea, but it's not worth the trade.

    It includes ads from googletagmanager, cookiebot, and googleoptimize.
  • by Firefox user 17424819, 7 days ago
  • by Firefox user 15524268, 7 days ago
    Some of the requested personal data I totally understand, but the privacy policy asks for too much for this to be worth it.

    If that's not a concern for you, give it a shot.
  • by Firefox user 16508656, 7 days ago
    Rubbish.

    It has no bearing on the quality of the product nor value of the ratings.

    It does not point out which reviews it thinks are false.

    Many of the grades say outdated and require retesting.

    Gives bad grades for several items that are good.

    Gives good grades for items that I have had to send back.
  • by Firefox user 18141151, 7 days ago
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  • by VillaVivace, 8 days ago
    "Powered by Mozilla. Putting people before profits since 1998." - Mozilla

    Mozilla, from what I've seen, your company has been dedicated to providing your users privacy and great tools to combat tracking of all forms. This tool/add-on directly goes against those ideals and has started a rift between you and your customers/users, especially through your endorsement of this product. The product does not work on Amazon, as it promises, and it takes a lot more of my data than I am comfortable with.
    I really don't want to leave this platform, but the more you sell out to shady companies, like this and Amazon, the less inclined I am to believe you are serious about internet safety and security. Please, get rid of this add-on, or fix it. Money is not everything. Once you give in to money as your primary reasoning behind these shady decisions, you will have failed the users completely.
  • by Firefox user 15734875, 8 days ago
    Ironic that the purpose of this extension is to spot fake reviews, yet has over 50 fake 5-star reviews for it here. *DO NOT INSTALL THIS ADD-ON* Do NOT agree to it's invasive privacy data collection. Get this junk off the add-ons store.
  • by Firefox user 18157998, 8 days ago
    that privacy policy might as well read "you have no right to privacy"
  • by Gen, 8 days ago
    forced data collection. avoid.
  • by matchsticks, 8 days ago
    forced opt-in data harvesting scheme
  • by Jota, 11 days ago
    Don't Work
  • by Sleepwalker, 21 days ago
    Is it really opt-in when it is forced?
  • by Qaz Cetelic, 21 days ago
    Pretty good but does not support Amazon.nl and thus useless for me.
  • by GrumpyPapa, a month ago
    When I did not agree with the terms of agreement I was asked to submit my reason. I indicated other and responded, "Forced Opt-In". When I clicked the "Submit" button I received a 405 error - suggesting that my response was not delivered(?)
  • by Filipi, a month ago
    Despite claiming they're a "privacy-first company", the add-on will collect your username on various sites, all the products you view, search history, and the products you buy.

    They have the gall to say they will never sell any data, but it clearly states in the privacy policy they will use this collected information to market items, sellers, provide ads, and "Sharing personal information with third parties".

    Abysmal.
  • by Pianosa, a month ago
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  • by jrmcmaster, a month ago
    It works as expected, but one star for forcing "Opt-in" on data collection. Your choices are to opt-in or uninstall. Opt-in means I have a choice. You have removed that choice, so there is no opting in. Either I accept the terms and conditions, or I don't.
  • by Sikly, a month ago
    This addon requires you to give your data to them for it to function, this is a gross violation of privacy and an abusive strategy to generate revenue from its users.