[HN Gopher] Fakespot shuts down today after 9 years of detecting...
       ___________________________________________________________________
        
       Fakespot shuts down today after 9 years of detecting fake product
       reviews
        
       Author : doppio19
       Score  : 5 points
       Date   : 2025-07-01 20:26 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (blog.truestar.pro)
 (TXT) w3m dump (blog.truestar.pro)
        
       | doppio19 wrote:
       | For the unfamiliar, Fakespot was a browser extension that flagged
       | suspicious product reviews on sites like Amazon. Mozilla bought
       | it just two years ago and integrated it directly into Firefox as
       | their "Review Checker" feature. Today, to my dismay, they're
       | sunsetting it. As someone building in this space, I wrote about
       | Fakespot's history, the problem it solved, and why we need
       | sustainable alternatives.
        
         | rasz wrote:
         | Did Mozilla score some absolutely unrelated deal with Amazon by
         | any chance recently? They killed DeepSpeech very same day
         | NVIDIA paid them $1.5mil
        
           | i80and wrote:
           | DeepSpeech shuttered in 2021. The repo was just made read-
           | only the other day
        
           | doppio19 wrote:
           | Not that I'm aware of. But I do know that in late 2024,
           | Amazon made a change where users now have to be logged in to
           | view product reviews beyond the ones that appear on the first
           | page (about 8 reviews). From what I can tell, Fakespot
           | scraped the Amazon product listing pages on their backend, so
           | that simple change would have pretty much killed its current
           | implementation.
        
       ___________________________________________________________________
       (page generated 2025-07-01 23:01 UTC)