Deceiving addon, found it was listing sellers as "bad" and redirected me to more expensive sellers. after removing the addon i was able to check and verify the seller that it labeled as "bad" and turned out that it had pretty good reputation. i also found in some cases it changed the order button to another seller with a more expensive price, before clicking on the button the price was $49.99 and when it was in the cart it was suddenly $79.99 and changed the seller.

The Beta version was working pretty well, but the add-on is extremely awkward and very poorly done. It is a waste of time and resources. The programmers have totally lost sight of the original purpose as well as it is intrusive with cookie setting limited to "do not sell my information". This does not prevent them from creating the cookies in the first place. This add-on has done a lot to shake my confidence in Firefox. If they are wise they will revamp the program or remove it all together.

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Nothing but SPYWARE with useless, INACCURATE results!!!

Been using for several years now. Nothing is perfect but it provides information...

yes, this review checker is completely fake.

Fakespot is programmed to give good results to businesses that pay for good results, and bad results for everyone else. I tested it against known products and known reviews, and Fakespot turned out to be the fake.

and there is no way to completely remove it once firefox adds it. the price tag symbol is always present in the address bar when you visit the websites that fakespot is programmed to influence on, so that even when you turn it off, there is a chance that you would accidentally click to turn it on so that fakespot can make you buy something else.

Being ever-present, and constantly sending your activities and information to whoever is in charge of fakespot means that fakespot is monitoring your activities. Read the fine print.

The privacy policy is... concerning. From what I understand the neural network runs on my machine. Why is *anything* sent to you or third-parties. Also why is the code not open-source? What happened to you Mozilla?

From the privacy policy: "We may share your personal information with third-party advertising partners. These third-party advertising partners may set Cookies and other tracking tools on our Services to collect information regarding your activities and your device (e.g., your IP address, cookie identifiers, page(s) visited, location, time of day). These advertising partners may use this information (and similar information collected from other services) for purposes of delivering personalized advertisements to you when you visit digital properties within their networks. This practice is commonly referred to as "interest-based advertising," "personalized advertising," or "targeted advertising."

I can't really shop on Amazon anymore without this. I've always suspected there are fake reviews and I've even been sent notes with my Amazon orders myself promising something like an Amazon gift card for a 5 star review, which I would never do because I have standards for myself.

Anyway, I like that this is outside of the page itself since that makes it very easy to see, though, I would like it more if it wasn't so permanently intrusive on the page, but maybe a small button somewhere just showing a quick rating with the ability to click on it for more information?

Overall, it's still a 5 star add-on to me. Extremely useful! Thank you Mozilla Team! 🙂

This extension does exactly what it says. It does it well and without any negative effect on my browsing. It's not malware (scanned it, lol), and Mozilla is not harming its users.

Gee, I wonder why there are so many 1 star reviews with no specifics or logic behind the ratings.

I'm sure it's nothing to do with the fact that this extension exposes fake reviews of for-profit sellers' products on giant for-profit web sites.

Yeah, sure. A highly respected, non-profit company (Mozilla) that exists entirely to protect users' privacy and provide a high-quality, safer (than Chrome, e.g.) online experience, is for some mysterious reason harvesting private data to harm their users. It makes perfect sense if you don't think about it.

I enjoy getting a second opinion on items offered by Amazon and Best Buy.