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Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, their read-it-later and content discovery app, and Fakespot, their browser extension that analyzes the authenticity of online product reviews. (blog.mozilla.org)
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[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 72 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

God damnit so they bought Fakespot, an extension that actually did good, hiding fake botted reviews and reanalyzing them - and now they're killing it. It was literally an extension to help prevent unnecessary buying. Why the hell did they even buy it?

We acquired Fakespot in 2023 to help people navigate unreliable product reviews using AI and privacy-first tech. While the idea resonated, it didn’t fit a model we could sustain.

Then why did you buy it you idiots?!

[-] KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I'm also exactly on the same boat as you; I use Fakepost frequently and now it will be canned by Mozilla. The alternative I found is https://reviewmeta.com/, but it's quite slow and can't cover all domains of Amazon.

[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 points 2 months ago

I'll give it a try, but yeah very disappointed

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