This add-on has a built-in conflict-of-interest by redirecting you to other products if it says the reviews on a site are unreliable.

Thing is, it is NOT POSSIBLE to determine whether reviews are fake or not. It is certainly possible to write a review and this app thinks it is fake, thereby taking away any voice consumers may have.

Also, if certain people write reviews that are bot-like or sound like a fake review, their reviews are not counted.

Too many things to go wrong with this, and the collection of data and inherent problems with the app making money by sending you to other sites make this add-on a non-starter.

This is not a fake review!!

Required data collection is a non-starter.

It's not perfect as the company still needs to make money by obtaining some information and selling it. But in return, it offers the CHANCE of revealing fake or scammy sellers especially sellers that have lots of successful sales, but if a problem occurs, then that seller flakes out (eg "treats customer poorly"). Such sellers are hard to spot due to the bad results hidden by the many successful ones. In the end, this tool can still improve especially if it can create a form of "INSTITUTIONAL MEMORY" which is needed in online sales reviews.

Works great on Amazon, it's very useful! On Walmart however, using it takes me to a page telling me to "add Fakespot to Firefox" even though I already have it installed, making me unable to use it on Walmart at all as it never recognizes that it is in fact installed.

Collecting enormous amount of Data

Ratings do not seem accurate or align at all with reality.

just goes to show you that no company is your friend.

Deceiving addon, found it was listing sellers as "bad" and redirected me to more expensive sellers. after removing the addon i was able to check and verify the seller that it labeled as "bad" and turned out that it had pretty good reputation. i also found in some cases it changed the order button to another seller with a more expensive price, before clicking on the button the price was $49.99 and when it was in the cart it was suddenly $79.99 and changed the seller.

The Beta version was working pretty well, but the add-on is extremely awkward and very poorly done. It is a waste of time and resources. The programmers have totally lost sight of the original purpose as well as it is intrusive with cookie setting limited to "do not sell my information". This does not prevent them from creating the cookies in the first place. This add-on has done a lot to shake my confidence in Firefox. If they are wise they will revamp the program or remove it all together.

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