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!

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

I would use this if you could pick what website it collects data from. But giving it permission to collect data on all websites is a big no from me.

Aside from the questionable data collection and accuracy of the reporting, this add-on *significantly* increases the load time of the amazon page. I cannot recommend this.

Its an interesting product. But as others mentioned, there appears to be zero restrictions around what websites this extension can interact with or record your information from.

It'd put me a bit more ease if they could explicitly outline which websites they target in the permissions tab rather then saying everything. Similar to how keeper does it for price history on Amazon.

Performance wise, there's not much that can happen here unfortunately since its injecting objects all over the page's it can interact with. Its causing a notability slower experience as a result and a bit of an eye sore on top of it (yes I know you can disable things but I don't know what would be deemed important to have or have not).

For HomeDepot, damn near everything is rated D and F. They might need to tweak some things for that.

Opens new tabs asking for data collection, even when updating in the background. Super annoying and quiestionable from a privacy perspective. Otherwise not a bad idea.

i can't recommend this extension honestly. a lot of reputable brands/products I know are getting low ratings. It's hard to trust what it says.

so far I am not impressed. reports products with an A rating with only one rating but no review. reports 50% deception on an item I reviewed when there are only 6 reviews one of which is not a vine review. does not point out which reviews are "deceptive" reports products with lots of deceptive or badly written reviews with an A rating. list pros and cons by quoting partial sentences from reviews. asks for feedback on it;s webpage but does not allow you to write why you are clicking thumbs up or down. seems no better than flipping a coin.

Doesn't work.
When I analyze the reviews it shows me that a product with 50,000 reviews has only 50 reviews. So only 1 in 1000 reviews is recognized. Well-known manufacturers like Samsung or Apple is given a D rating - i doubt these companies have to fake reviews. In addition, when reading the reviews, the add-on does not show which ones seem to be trustworthy and which ones doesn't. In its current state it is mostly useless.

Funktioniert nicht.
Wenn ich die Bewertungen analysiere zeigt es mir an, dass ein Produkt mich 50.000 Bewertungen nur 50 Bewertungen habe. Also wird nur 1 von 1000 Bewertungen erkannt. Bei namhaften Herstellern wie Samsung oder Apple wird eine D-Wertung vergeben - als ob diese Firmen es nötig hätten Fake-Reviews einzustellen. Außerdem zeigt einem das Add-on beim Lesen der Bewertungen nicht an, welche vertrauenswürdig zu sein scheinen und welche nicht. In dem aktuellem Zustand ist es so eher nutzlos.

https://www.fakespot.com/product/samsung-schnellladegerat-25-w-usb-port-typ-c-ohne-kabel-fb57d1a9-cacf-480a-aefd-626a09f7cd98

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.

This addon breaks "sort by lowest price" on amazon. Had to uninstall it just to be able to use that again.

About 3/4 of the time the accuracy rating feels right, but sometimes its obviously wrong.

Starting to get invasive and messing up web pages. So long.

I used to like Fakespot a lot. However, more recently it feels like the data is completely off. I can see a well-known reputable brand like Sony that I trust to not be buying fake reviews get a solid F. The reasoning doesn't even seem valid. Then some junky unknown brand/product gets an A rating with what are clearly bad reviews.
Furthermore, the A-F ratings don't actually help me decide if the product itself is good, so I don't actually get actionable information for making a purchase.
I don't know what they're using for training data or feedback for their ML models, but it doesn't appear to be working.

Hot take: you shouldn't clog up my browsing with a bunch of crap I didn't ask for without asking me first.

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.

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.