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.

makes no sense that the same item in a one pack has a B rating in a 2 pack and A rating and in a 3 pack a D rating. How is that?

Really just agreeing with the most recent 1-star reviews. I wish to ask the Dev: do you realize ... and I'm not suggesting that you're not brilliant, honestly. It's just - I hate to see a once-very-popular add-on going this route.

I wish you'd re-think your decisions which resulted in a far more invasive experience and which have garnered some harsh criticism from formerly happy users. I know that you are not "forcing" anyone to do anything, and that's been your basic response of late... and we know that's true. BUT - if a person wishes to use your add-on you ARE enforcing a level of depth and breadth in.. umm... information gathering abilities.. which a growing number of people are quite concerned about.

Clearly you've many projects underway and this is perhaps just a legacy from a more addOn-friendly Firefox - but, if you care about this particular one - I hope you give it more thought.

Cheers - and - I do get it, really.

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 installed the program before reading the reviews, then found out in the reviews that all my website visited are reported to Fakespot. That gave me a bad feeling, so I removed the program and will use their website link instead when needed.

It's a positive that Fakespot finally works with Firefox as well as it did in Chrome. I've stopped using Chrome due to privacy issues. I use Chrome only to shop on Amazon to see the Fakespot review and then close it.

However, it's a huge negative that FS pops up and interferes with non-Amazon, non-eBay sites. The plug-in also seems to have far too many permissions, tracking every site to which a user goes. This is a bridge too far. I'm disabling it for the moment, but likely am going to uninstall this overly intrusive tracker. Again, if there's no charge for a product, then you are the product. I'm not going to be FakeSpot's product.

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)

Love this app.

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.

Glad it's finally available on Firefox again, works great, I rely on it a lot! Helps make informed decisions when shopping.