Fakespot completely broke Firefox for me. As soon as I installed it, every single page stopped loading—just an endless loading screen, no matter what site I tried. Thought it might be my connection, but other browsers on the same machine worked fine. Uninstalled Fakespot, and Firefox was instantly back to normal. Hard to see how it wasn’t the addon causing the issue.

Unless they fix whatever’s going on here, I can’t recommend it at all.

Wirklich? Sämtliche Webseiten von mir werden mit dem Plugin gescannt und dort an einen Server gesendet und weiter verarbeitet? Nein Danke!

I insalled this after getting pissed off with reviewmeta.com, which seems to be completely moribund and buggy as hell now.

On the face of it this Fakespot extension is a much better bet. I can see the review ratings right there on the Amazon listings and, with Mozilla behind it, I can be relatively certain its:

A: safe to use.
B: updated regularly.

Unfortunately, the reports generated aren't helpful at all—hence my 2-star rating. The extension will give a product's ratings a grade. But there's no information as to how this grade was arrived at. Even clicking through to go onto the Fakespot site and read the in-depth analysis leaves me none the wiser. It just seems to summarise various highlights taken from the reviews [which, in the case of Amazon, is now done by Amazon themselves anyway].

The extension would be a hell of a lot more useful, if it explained WHY a product's reviews were graded low quality. For example, ReviewMeta [when it works] elaborates on this by showing [for example]; that X% of reviewers have only ever reviewed this product, that X% of reviews contain the exact same phrases that X% of reviewers give any product they review a 5-star rating, etc. etc.

C'mon Mozilla. Act like you're sitting an exam here and show us your working out as well as your answers!

Amazon.se is not supported

The problem is if the item does not have a lot of sales or reviews it automatically gives it a bad rating as not enough reviews. I hate this part of the extension the old meta review did not care as long as you had say around 10 reviews it would rate them 10 reviews..

This extension seems to work really well. Of course, it depends on the AI. The thing that gets me in reading a number of other reviews is that people don't seem to understand the purpose of the extension. Fakespot is using algorithms to spot fake REVIEWS and gives a letter grade to indicate the RELIABILITY of the REVIEWS, not the vendors, not the sellers, not the products. Geesh.

This felt like a godsend and overall it is, at least as a rough guide. Some sellers get a bad rating they don't deserve though. Ones I've used for years such as Naissance. Good prices etc. I've seen some complaints they can't appeal. One chap said he goes the extra mile - gave examples - for all his customers, who leave great reviews - but gets a terrible D rating.

Looked like a good idea but it messed up my Amazon searches. And wasn't really of big help elsewhere.

I consider amazon.nl, amazon.com.be, amazon.de etc to be "Amazon" websites with Amazon reviews. Yet I'm getting "this website is not supported" errors. The extension is pretty much useless to me and probably most non-USA customers. Sad.

It is really really bad. Trusted brands get an F Grade "High deception". Trusted Market leading Brands like Bosch. It doesn't tell you why it thinks its "high deception" it is basically just "Trust me bro".

And it also tells me that dropshipping junk on Amazon is "A" from Vendor A and "D" from Vendor B, what is itt now, it comes from the same droppshipping company.

Dont bother its absolute garbage.