Reviews for Fakespot Fake Amazon Reviews and eBay Sellers
Fakespot Fake Amazon Reviews and eBay Sellers by Mozilla Firefox
290 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by fr34k1n9, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17379420, 3 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Ashton99, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by SharColl, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 10745620, 3 years agoWish they could be on more websites that sell items
- Rated 1 out of 5by Granoblastic Man, 3 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by ellewiz, 3 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 12536980, 3 years agoBit hit-and-miss , there are times spinning on loading the rate for ever... Works fine on chrome , so I assume devs in-bed with google/chrome of have no clue to make it work on firefox.
- Rated 5 out of 5by mustafacan, 3 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Builder, 3 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14489884, 3 years agoNeeded something like this with all the fake reviews out there. Tested it on a several Amazon products, incl some I got burned on and suspected fake reviews or pay for 5*. FS rated both the worst ones reviews a B with "minimal deception" and all good on the pay for 5* on totally terrible product (I know b/c I received the offer to change my review, and a few reviews mentioned it, esp on seller). The other bad product said all was fine, but that Amazon modified 74,662 reviews (but there are only 37,957), yet FS said 80% "high quality" reviews. Great on Amazon to remove or w/e 2/3 of the reviews (or does this mean reviewer mods as well?), but how can the other metrics be so good? Also, the Amazon rating on every product I checked was the same as the FS, in one case 5* (riiiight, on 9,384 reviews of a horrible, scam product). So, for my uses, the results and usefulness don't justify the privacy invasion.
- Rated 1 out of 5by AlreadyGuilty, 3 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Broffrey, 3 years agoAvoid this kind of extensions that can collect what you are looking on the internet, it's just collecting informations on you to profile you and similar customers to target ads/products/services. That's desguished spyware in counterpart to provide you a pretended nice service.
And just about the service provided: this kind of extensions (lots of similar exist like this one) can modify the webpages on-the-fly and also can censure some parts or search results to guide you to buy to a specific seller instead of a concurrent. And guess who is paying the extension editor to do that?
Mind again before addin browser extensions! - Rated 1 out of 5by Nikita, 3 years agoWARNING: SPYWARE
7 months ago, I wrote a 5/5 review, because I've been using Fakespot for searching Amazon products. So I was happy to get a convenient Firefox add-on.
I stopped using this addon a few months ago. Not only does it make Amazon lag, but seems to be active on more than just Amazon.
So just to be clear, you're just basically giving a third party a free reign on your browser activities, going through every store you use.
Not only are they monitoring your store uses, but you can bet your ass they are selling this info to parties like Amazon and Google, among other spywares, who want to monitor where you purchase and what.
This is a privacy nightmare on a whole new level.
Cherry on top? They disabled searches on their site. So now you HAVE to use their add-on.
Haha, no. You're out. - Rated 3 out of 5by jo, 3 years agomakes no sense that the same item in a one pack has a B rating in a 2 pack and A rating and in a 3 pack a D rating. How is that?
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 12253094, 3 years agoReally just agreeing with the most recent 1-star reviews. I wish to ask the Dev: do you realize ... and I'm not suggesting that you're not brilliant, honestly. It's just - I hate to see a once-very-popular add-on going this route.
I wish you'd re-think your decisions which resulted in a far more invasive experience and which have garnered some harsh criticism from formerly happy users. I know that you are not "forcing" anyone to do anything, and that's been your basic response of late... and we know that's true. BUT - if a person wishes to use your add-on you ARE enforcing a level of depth and breadth in.. umm... information gathering abilities.. which a growing number of people are quite concerned about.
Clearly you've many projects underway and this is perhaps just a legacy from a more addOn-friendly Firefox - but, if you care about this particular one - I hope you give it more thought.
Cheers - and - I do get it, really. - Rated 1 out of 5by GreaseMacaque, 3 years agoThis use to be good. Now you HAVE to login for it to work. When attempting to create a login, no verify emails are ever sent, so no login is ever created.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 17083438, 3 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 15289944, 3 years agoI installed the program before reading the reviews, then found out in the reviews that all my website visited are reported to Fakespot. That gave me a bad feeling, so I removed the program and will use their website link instead when needed.
- Rated 2 out of 5by RCAdddiction, 3 years agoIt's a positive that Fakespot finally works with Firefox as well as it did in Chrome. I've stopped using Chrome due to privacy issues. I use Chrome only to shop on Amazon to see the Fakespot review and then close it.
However, it's a huge negative that FS pops up and interferes with non-Amazon, non-eBay sites. The plug-in also seems to have far too many permissions, tracking every site to which a user goes. This is a bridge too far. I'm disabling it for the moment, but likely am going to uninstall this overly intrusive tracker. Again, if there's no charge for a product, then you are the product. I'm not going to be FakeSpot's product. - Rated 4 out of 5by vanontom, 3 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Blarrg, 3 years agoI don't want an add-on that watches my browsing. Developer responded to several reviews saying that you can still use fakespot on the website menu, but clicking the menu link does nothing.
I get that you aren't doing this out of the goodness of your hearts, and that you need to monetize it somehow, but I'm not in love with the 'harvesting my data' option. - Rated 1 out of 5by HK, 3 years agoI don't appreciate the Firefox add-on being pushed so hard, even if the original analyzer bar is still available (it's certainly not in an obvious spot anymore). I'm not going to install an add-on that wants access to all the webpages I visit. You didn't need that before, so you don't need that now. In response to the developer telling everyone to go read the privacy policy: your privacy policy literally says you track usage in order to serve users adds.