News Fakspot is going to be discontinued

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Mozilla has decided to shut down Fakespot on July 1, 2025.

Link: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/building-whats-next/

For people who don't know, Fakespot used to make it easy to filter out fake reviews, unreliable sellers, and counterfeit products on websites like Amazon, Walmart and in limited capacity on Flipkart too!
Every product I used to buy needed to go through Fakespot and attain at least a B rating in my book to proceed with the purchase.

Concerning Amazon having so many fake reviews on a lot of popular products, it really is going to make buying products difficult for me.
Have you used this service? If yes, do you know any good substitutes for this? Please let me know below!
 
blr_p said:
What?
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I believe you meant TechEnclave as a marketplace, right?I can't really recommend by parents to use this since they don't have enough technical expertise do engage in marketplace here.

For other e-commerce platform, you simply just need to share the product to the fakespot app and it used to show everything. It was easier to do.

I myself got ripped on a GPU that was so beautifully pasted that no one would believe. Only after i took it out one day after few months to clean it i realised that it had pasting done on it but it was too late to really do anything about it.

Chances of those kind of occurrences are much higher here so it really cant be a proper replacement for platforms like Amazon or other sites.
 
Mjay said:
I believe you meant TechEnclave as a marketplace, right?
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I meant if you want advice on any product chances are you will find some one who knows about it. If it's the latest then you will have to be patient.

I wasn't referring to the marketplace. You wanted to know if reviews were legit.
Mjay said:
For fakespot you simply just share the product to the app and it used to show everything.
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You seem to have so much faith in this fakespot. If it was so great how come they're discontinuing it then.
Mjay said:
I myself got ripped on a GPU that was so beautifully pasted that no one would believe. Only after i took it out one day after few months to clean it i realised that it had pasting done on it but it was too late to really do anything about it.
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Ask here about such listing. Many times there are fake websites enquiries here or posts by members who stumble on them.
 
blr_p said:
I meant if you want advice on any product chances are you will find some one who knows about it. If it's the latest then you will have to be patient.
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I can see this working good for products that are mainstream or costly. Not so much when you are buying mundane things or things you require within a time frame.
blr_p said:
You seem to have so much faith in this fakespot. If it was so great how come they're discontinuing it then
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Good doesn't mean sustainable. Kindly go though Mozilla link again.
Also, its not about faith its about convenience and speed.
blr_p said:
Ask here about such listing.
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It was WTB. And the funny part is the person actually sold it to someone else who is a pretty old user here. Because of the newer GPU availability issues they canceled the transaction and i ended up taking that at a little higher premium. If an old user is unable to catch those things, thinking non technical people(family etc) will catch that is a pipedream. Exactly proving my point.

But keeping that aside, I know there are YouTube extensions that are capable of scanning the entire comment section client side so you can quickly go through the comments. How difficult would it be to scan a particular marketplace reviews instead with a small AI model to do the same?

If that was somewhat possible then I am pretty sure it would have popped somewhere in Github. I didn't see anything like that which pushed me to ask people if they know anything of that nature.
 
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Mjay said:
I can see this working good for products that are mainstream or costly. Not so much when you are buying mundane things or things you require within a time frame.
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I've never had a need for such a service and I'm sure plenty of people here also buy mundane stuff
Mjay said:
Good doesn't mean sustainable. Kindly go though Mozilla link again.
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It's gone. You need to figure out a workaround.
Mjay said:
It was WTB. And the funny part is the person actually sold it to someone else who is a pretty old user here. Because of the newer GPU availability issues they canceled the transaction and i ended up taking that at a little higher premium. If an old user is unable to catch those things, thinking non technical people(family etc) will catch that is a pipedream. Exactly proving my point.
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^Can't help with that.

And why would non technical people be making pretty technical purchases without advice or help?

i mean how often do such people need a GPU. Is it advisable considering even knowledgeable people here are also getting fooled.
Mjay said:
But keeping that aside, I know there are YouTube extensions that are capable of scanning the entire comment section client side so you can quickly go through the comments. How difficult would it be to scan a particular marketplace reviews instead with a small AI model to do the same?
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Why are you relying on user reviews on these websites . Aren't there reviewers out there who can tell you that and do a far better job?

I've always found reviews there 50-50. If they aren't paid for then you get ignorant ones that are more down to user error than the product itself. Watch for those in the one star section.
 
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blr_p said:
I've never had a need for such a service and I'm sure plenty of people here also buy mundane stuff
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I am pretty sure they do. Wether those people having experiences with those exact mundane purchases, also coming across your thread is something I will probably have to test.
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It's gone. You need to figure out a workaround
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Yeah I know.
blr_p said:
And why would non technical people be making pretty technical purchases without advice or help?
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There are plenty of useful things here beside just a GPU but the technical ceiling to successfully complete those deals are much higher. And that's why actually i said earlier that it can't be proper replacement for ecommerce platforms plus a little tweak(fakespot etc) for those kind of non technical people. I should have made myself clearer. My apologies.
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Aren't there reviewers out there who can tell you that and do a far better job?
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Never harms to be extra cautious.
There can be often conflicting reviews online. Something that confirms the authenticity of the reviews you are seeing where you intend to buy the product from can come in useful.

Thats why I was looking for a replacement to the fakespot tool for purchases from e-commerce platforms. Somehow that got mixed up with something completely else.

But I will try to put up question type of post in here too to see how it goes.

Btw under which thread does asking for a product reviews type of post goes?
 
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