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The dedicated websites to check amazon reviews like fakespot.com have been almost completely beaten. What is Firefox going to do differently?
Per the article, they are integrating Fakespot into Firefox, so it won't be different. Hopefully the tool can be improved
Yeah. Fakespot is no better at all. The best thing to do right now is know if a product has only been listed for less than a couple months and has hundreds of reviews, it's BS.
Next up; go to the review section, sort by newest, and read those reviews. Usually the fake reviews are flooded in early and you get more real ones in later. I've seen things rated at like 4.5 stars with 500 reviews, but then half of the 10 most recent reviews will rate it 1 star.
Yeah it doesn't seem too difficult to me to see when reviews seem fishy. I have never tried fakespot myself.
Another thing to check is that the reviews match what the product is for - I have seen a lot of Amazon listings where the seller will have a product up for a long time, get a lot of positive reviews, then change the listing to something else. So it looks like the listing has been up for a long time with good reviews but it's really a different item. Then note the seller and don't buy anything from them lol.
I have a Firefox extension from this website, and another one... So I've had this all along. I guess it's great to hear they are building something into the product itself, though.
I'd really prefer it stay as an extension, honestly. The whole of the userbase does not need this and I hate software bloat.
Given the amount of malicious extensions that have slips through the cracks over the years, I'd rather it baked in. Something like that is very much inline with what Mozilla is all about in the end. Useful features that many would want isn't bloat.