Reviews for Fakespot Fake Amazon Reviews and eBay Sellers
Fakespot Fake Amazon Reviews and eBay Sellers by Mozilla Firefox
279 reviews
- Rated 3 out of 5by Wireball, a year agoI have to turn off the extension occasionally because it makes search results disappear in Amazon (observed on Amazon business).
I like the "This seller is approved" for third-party sellers on Amazon that have a high percentage of positive reviews.
I also like the, "Seller location does not match item location" warning, as well as the warning when there's a recent spike in negative reviews.
I'm skeptical of the Fakespot letter grade for reviews, however, when fly-by-night companies with names that look like they were made by mashing randomly on the keyboard are marked as A or B grade, while name-brand products that I've used for years and know are good are marked D or F with "there is high deception involved". - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14513658, a year agoThis extension is an excellent idea and has so much potential. Unfortunately, its analysis is highly unreliable. I went through the items I purchased before, fully aware of their reliable reviews. This extension returned F grades for most of them. When shopping for new items, I could spot many reviews that are likely to be fake. But this extension returned high grades, A through C, mostly A or B.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Nyaa, a year agoMore AI nonsense. Doesn't point out what reviews it thinks are fake, shows your random summaries that give you nearly exactly the same info you can get just from a quick glance at the reviews and seller page.
Mozilla appears to be trend-chasing again rather than improving their products. Just read the Fakespot privacy policy and you can tell quite clearly that this is *not* the Mozilla we know and trust anymore. - Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 10334998, a year agoDoesn't work.
When I analyze the reviews it shows me that a product with 50,000 reviews has only 50 reviews. So only 1 in 1000 reviews is recognized. Well-known manufacturers like Samsung or Apple is given a D rating - i doubt these companies have to fake reviews. In addition, when reading the reviews, the add-on does not show which ones seem to be trustworthy and which ones doesn't. In its current state it is mostly useless.
Funktioniert nicht.
Wenn ich die Bewertungen analysiere zeigt es mir an, dass ein Produkt mich 50.000 Bewertungen nur 50 Bewertungen habe. Also wird nur 1 von 1000 Bewertungen erkannt. Bei namhaften Herstellern wie Samsung oder Apple wird eine D-Wertung vergeben - als ob diese Firmen es nötig hätten Fake-Reviews einzustellen. Außerdem zeigt einem das Add-on beim Lesen der Bewertungen nicht an, welche vertrauenswürdig zu sein scheinen und welche nicht. In dem aktuellem Zustand ist es so eher nutzlos.
https://www.fakespot.com/product/samsung-schnellladegerat-25-w-usb-port-typ-c-ohne-kabel-fb57d1a9-cacf-480a-aefd-626a09f7cd98 - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15443586, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by ng, a year ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Mike Cunneen, a year agoI've only been using this for 10 minutes but already it has proven its worth. While looking at buying a power charger on eBay, fakespot cautioned:
"Seller Caution:
The person selling this product has a Caution by Fakespot Guard, because:
Seller location does not match item location.
There is a spike of negative reviews in the last month."
Thank you fakespot team. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14266325, a year ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Marc Who, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by tankexmortis, a year agoworks 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
- Rated 5 out of 5by dlh, a year ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Kelemvor, a year agoFakespot 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.
Fakespot includes ads from googletagmanager, cookiebot, and googleoptimize. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17424819, a year ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 15524268, a year agoSome 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. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 16508656, a year agoRubbish.
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. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18141151, a year ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 16146343, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Tuana, a year ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by VillaVivace, a year 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. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 15734875, a year agoIronic 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.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18157998, a year agothat privacy policy might as well read "you have no right to privacy"