so far I am not impressed. reports products with an A rating with only one rating but no review. reports 50% deception on an item I reviewed when there are only 6 reviews one of which is not a vine review. does not point out which reviews are "deceptive" reports products with lots of deceptive or badly written reviews with an A rating. list pros and cons by quoting partial sentences from reviews. asks for feedback on it;s webpage but does not allow you to write why you are clicking thumbs up or down. seems no better than flipping a coin.

Removes Sponsored listings in the search results but adds it's own ads in the item pages themselves.

Privacy concerns, do not install because this extension tracks your browsing (I have reverse-engineered their minified js code and everything you visit is caught and sent to their servers including your browser, your mouse clicks (using sentry.io) and your urlParams (which contains lots of useful information (UTM for example)))

A nice to have that helps you avoid scams but emphasis on "helps". It's just one tool but not a replacement for doing your own research. You can't rely on it alone.
Really nice to know this extension is now owned by Mozilla but they need to put the "Recommended" seal next to it if Mozilla wants to show they have faith in it.

I have to turn off the extension occasionally because it makes search results disappear in Amazon (observed on Amazon business).

I like the "This seller is approved" for third-party sellers on Amazon that have a high percentage of positive reviews.

I also like the, "Seller location does not match item location" warning, as well as the warning when there's a recent spike in negative reviews.

I'm skeptical of the Fakespot letter grade for reviews, however, when fly-by-night companies with names that look like they were made by mashing randomly on the keyboard are marked as A or B grade, while name-brand products that I've used for years and know are good are marked D or F with "there is high deception involved".

This extension is an excellent idea and has so much potential. Unfortunately, its analysis is highly unreliable. I went through the items I purchased before, fully aware of their reliable reviews. This extension returned F grades for most of them. When shopping for new items, I could spot many reviews that are likely to be fake. But this extension returned high grades, A through C, mostly A or B.

More AI nonsense. Doesn't point out what reviews it thinks are fake, shows your random summaries that give you nearly exactly the same info you can get just from a quick glance at the reviews and seller page.

Mozilla appears to be trend-chasing again rather than improving their products. Just read the Fakespot privacy policy and you can tell quite clearly that this is *not* the Mozilla we know and trust anymore.

Doesn't work.
When I analyze the reviews it shows me that a product with 50,000 reviews has only 50 reviews. So only 1 in 1000 reviews is recognized. Well-known manufacturers like Samsung or Apple is given a D rating - i doubt these companies have to fake reviews. In addition, when reading the reviews, the add-on does not show which ones seem to be trustworthy and which ones doesn't. In its current state it is mostly useless.

Funktioniert nicht.
Wenn ich die Bewertungen analysiere zeigt es mir an, dass ein Produkt mich 50.000 Bewertungen nur 50 Bewertungen habe. Also wird nur 1 von 1000 Bewertungen erkannt. Bei namhaften Herstellern wie Samsung oder Apple wird eine D-Wertung vergeben - als ob diese Firmen es nötig hätten Fake-Reviews einzustellen. Außerdem zeigt einem das Add-on beim Lesen der Bewertungen nicht an, welche vertrauenswürdig zu sein scheinen und welche nicht. In dem aktuellem Zustand ist es so eher nutzlos.

https://www.fakespot.com/product/samsung-schnellladegerat-25-w-usb-port-typ-c-ohne-kabel-fb57d1a9-cacf-480a-aefd-626a09f7cd98

I've only been using this for 10 minutes but already it has proven its worth. While looking at buying a power charger on eBay, fakespot cautioned:

"Seller Caution:
The person selling this product has a Caution by Fakespot Guard, because:

Seller location does not match item location.
There is a spike of negative reviews in the last month."

Thank you fakespot team.

gggg

works great, wish i'd been using this ages ago. the one star reviews are either blatantly wrong (it 100% does work with adblock lmao) or paranoid about Mozilla collecting their data, which is hilariously silly when you consider how many people trust Google Chrome

Fakespot requires disabling your ad blocker! This is completely unacceptable. The add-on will not work correctly if you've got an ad-blocker such as ublock origin blocking spam and ads. It's too bad, as this is a good idea, but it's not worth the trade.

Fakespot includes ads from googletagmanager, cookiebot, and googleoptimize.

Some of the requested personal data I totally understand, but the privacy policy asks for too much for this to be worth it.

If that's not a concern for you, give it a shot.

Rubbish.

It has no bearing on the quality of the product nor value of the ratings.

It does not point out which reviews it thinks are false.

Many of the grades say outdated and require retesting.

Gives bad grades for several items that are good.

Gives good grades for items that I have had to send back.