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dudeinhawaii ◴[] No.44073449[source]
Sad to see Fakespot shutdown after purchase. I rely on Fakespot for a sort of ground-truth when navigating Amazon. When faced with 20 similar items, all having thousands of faked review scores, it was helpful to get the A-F rating. While these tools didn't really need to live in the browser, by purchasing and then killing them, they've done the web a disservice.

"Fakespot's analysis of online shopping reviews didn't fit a model we could sustain"

I feel like you figure that out before you purchase the largest tool for analyzing and detecting fake product reviews.

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1. EA-3167 ◴[] No.44073740[source]
You know how it goes, embrace, extend, extinguish isn't just for MS anymore. I'm in your shoes here, Fakespot is really useful on Amazon when it warns you about a seller having problems for example.