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.

Nothing but SPYWARE with useless, INACCURATE results!!!

yes, this review checker is completely fake.

Fakespot is programmed to give good results to businesses that pay for good results, and bad results for everyone else. I tested it against known products and known reviews, and Fakespot turned out to be the fake.

and there is no way to completely remove it once firefox adds it. the price tag symbol is always present in the address bar when you visit the websites that fakespot is programmed to influence on, so that even when you turn it off, there is a chance that you would accidentally click to turn it on so that fakespot can make you buy something else.

Being ever-present, and constantly sending your activities and information to whoever is in charge of fakespot means that fakespot is monitoring your activities. Read the fine print.

The privacy policy is... concerning. From what I understand the neural network runs on my machine. Why is *anything* sent to you or third-parties. Also why is the code not open-source? What happened to you Mozilla?

From the privacy policy: "We may share your personal information with third-party advertising partners. These third-party advertising partners may set Cookies and other tracking tools on our Services to collect information regarding your activities and your device (e.g., your IP address, cookie identifiers, page(s) visited, location, time of day). These advertising partners may use this information (and similar information collected from other services) for purposes of delivering personalized advertisements to you when you visit digital properties within their networks. This practice is commonly referred to as "interest-based advertising," "personalized advertising," or "targeted advertising."

So Mozilla is an ad + ai company now...

I had high hopes for this extension. I normally have to check out the reviews of each product I'm interested in, and switch to "recent reviews." This can become burdensome. So Mozilla's Fakespot looked like the ideal add-on. Sadly, it was not.

When I was installing it, I realized that I was somewhat selling my soul to Mozilla, but I clicked "accept" anyway. Sure, take all my data, just spare me fake reviews.

Sadly, that didn't happen. Despite handing over my complete data, I did not get a functional extension. It was buggy, inconsistent, slow, and intrusive. It kept opening tabs I didn't want, completely interfering with my efforts to learn about Amazon products. So - sold my soul for a broken tool. Serves me right.

Spare yourself the trouble. It doesn't work.

Hilarious

"Store unlimited amount of client-side data
Access your data for all websites"

As another reviewer wrote - malware

Useful tool but they've slowly changed it to spy on everything you do online. Do not install

One star for the privacy issues alone.

You don't actually "need" the data from my machine. I'm willing to bet if I block all outgoing traffic to your servers at a network level, the extension will still work just fine. I was alright sharing some data until you became more heavy handed with it. Now you cannot have any of my data ever again. Collect responsibly or not at all.

I have loved this add-on for a long time, but the new privacy stuff gets a 1 star and uninstall.

It used to work much better, but what really pushed me away was this dishonest privacy policy change, about collecting (and likely selling) user data. Thanks but no thanks. Do better.