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Fakespot shuts down today after 9 years of detecting fake product reviews

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406 points doppio19 | 1 comments | 01 Jul 25 20:26 UTC | HN request time: 0.211s | source
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ozgrakkurt ◴[02 Jul 25 05:25 UTC] No.44440479[source]▶
Reading reviews for the thing you are buying on the platform that you are buying it sounds a bit sketchy anyway.

Searching the product and reading about it from different review sites seems more reliable. Also can combine this with marketplace reviews considering reliability.

If there is no review than have to trust the brand and if there is no brand then it is a gamble

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1. logifail ◴[02 Jul 25 05:28 UTC] No.44440490[source]▶
> Reading reviews for the thing you are buying on the platform that you are buying it sounds a bit sketchy anyway

Although at least the platform can know if the reviewer actually purchased the product(?)

> Searching the product and reading about it from different review sites seems more reliable

Unless they use affiliate links, which is a great big red flag that the incentives are already stacked against you.