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Many of the grades say outdated and require retesting.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.

"Powered by Mozilla. Putting people before profits since 1998." - Mozilla

Mozilla, from what I've seen, your company has been dedicated to providing your users privacy and great tools to combat tracking of all forms. This tool/add-on directly goes against those ideals and has started a rift between you and your customers/users, especially through your endorsement of this product. The product does not work on Amazon, as it promises, and it takes a lot more of my data than I am comfortable with.
I really don't want to leave this platform, but the more you sell out to shady companies, like this and Amazon, the less inclined I am to believe you are serious about internet safety and security. Please, get rid of this add-on, or fix it. Money is not everything. Once you give in to money as your primary reasoning behind these shady decisions, you will have failed the users completely.

Ironic that the purpose of this extension is to spot fake reviews, yet has over 50 fake 5-star reviews for it here. *DO NOT INSTALL THIS ADD-ON* Do NOT agree to it's invasive privacy data collection. Get this junk off the add-ons store.

that privacy policy might as well read "you have no right to privacy"

forced data collection. avoid.

forced opt-in data harvesting scheme

Don't Work

Is it really opt-in when it is forced?

Pretty good but does not support Amazon.nl and thus useless for me.

When I did not agree with the terms of agreement I was asked to submit my reason. I indicated other and responded, "Forced Opt-In". When I clicked the "Submit" button I received a 405 error - suggesting that my response was not delivered(?)

Despite claiming they're a "privacy-first company", the add-on will collect your username on various sites, all the products you view, search history, and the products you buy.

They have the gall to say they will never sell any data, but it clearly states in the privacy policy they will use this collected information to market items, sellers, provide ads, and "Sharing personal information with third parties".

Abysmal.