The intent of this is good but ever since I installed it my pages are completely different in font, color design. I have to scroll 10 times just to see what used to be right at the top.

Worked fine until Firefox updated to 107.01. Now it doesn't display any info. It says "guard is loading" then disappears.

Personal Information We Collect

.... User ID also includes your account password, other credentials, security questions, and confirmation codes.

Why does it cover the prices with the fakespot reviews?

Bit 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.

Needed 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.

Avoid 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!

WARNING: 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.

This 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.

Gathers data for all websites. Completely unnecessary.

I 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.

I 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.

forcing the extension down our throats is not cool. you can say that "users can still use the website from the menu bar!" but it's so unintuitive. change it back

Does an ok job at detecting fake reviews. Hate being forced to install as an extension and targeting other sites like bestbuy. It was covering an option to apply a coupon for $100 on the bestbuy website.

1 star for making me install this addon instead of using the website as normal 😢

Requiring global permissions for a website-specific extension is beyond egregiously invasive, and signals to me that the creators of the extension harbour some kind of ill intent against my privacy for their own benefit. ReviewMeta, a competing service, has an extension which does not require global permissions.

Apple removed Fakespot, which claims to detect bad sellers and fake reviews, from the App Store after Amazon complained that the app provided misleading info (@starfire2258
/ The Verge)

I used Fakespot constantly for Amazon for a long time, and have always appreciated that service. And I don't mind developers wanting a revenue stream, however the idea that they want permission to scan every URL I visit, basically tracking my internet activity? Ridiculously intrusive and a deal breaker for me. No way I download this extension.

There is no reason why this addon needs to scan every single site I visit. It should be restricted to only domains I want it to check or domains it has an active database for. Gathering data on every site I visit for no reason with no way for me to disable it is predatory and why I wont trust this service ever again.