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Fakespot Is Acquired by Mozilla
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Re: Fakespot Is Acquired by Mozilla
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People can argue over word definition. If I pay someone to write me a false positive review, I'd say that's much more closer to a definition of a "fake content" than "more content". We can call it fake, false, malicious, misleading, bogus, sham, deceptive or any other similar names.
Re: Fakespot Is Acquired by Mozilla
#13How do they expect to lead in identifying fake content when the problem is intractable if adversaries are even somewhat competent?
You can collect heuristics which may work here and there to stay ahead in this cat and mouse game, but when adversaries use AI models properly, there is no way to differentiate.
Re: Fakespot Is Acquired by Mozilla
#14I'd really love for Mozilla to focus on actually... you know... building a web browser.
There are 1,000's of issues firefox needs to improve, from integrating native gnome-keyring support, to performance, to porting to rust, to...
Let me PM or run Mozilla for a year. We won't buy any more companies, and we're going to focus on engineering.
Re: Fakespot Is Acquired by Mozilla
#15This feels like a good long term vision for Mozilla.
The browser wars are basically over, and Mozilla as an organization would benefit from a longer term vision to improve veracity on the internet.
With the ability to generate content at the cost of basically 0, figuring out what's real and not real is going to be an increasingly hard challenge.
Browser stats (as of Feb): 79.7% - Chrome 8.6% - Edge 4.8% - Firefox/Mozilla 3.9% - Safari
Re: Fakespot Is Acquired by Mozilla
#16I'd really love for Mozilla to focus on actually... you know... building a web browser. There are 1,000's of issues firefox needs to improve, from integrating native gnome-keyring support, to performance, to porting to rust, to... Let me PM or run Mozilla for a year. We won't buy any more companies, and we're going to focus on engineering.
Why do you expect this from Mozilla but not Microsoft, Google, Apple,...?
Re: Fakespot Is Acquired by Mozilla
#17I'd really love for Mozilla to focus on actually... you know... building a web browser. There are 1,000's of issues firefox needs to improve, from integrating native gnome-keyring support, to performance, to porting to rust, to... Let me PM or run Mozilla for a year. We won't buy any more companies, and we're going to focus on engineering.
If your first step as PM of a browser that desperately needs to win back market share is to work on gnome-keyring, a feature only relevant on an operating system that less than 1% of people use your tenure is going to be very short-lived. This is engineering virtue-signaling, for lack of a better phrase.
Re: Fakespot Is Acquired by Mozilla
#18I used Fakespot a few years ago. It seemed to work well at that time. I switched computers and didn't go back to it (probably out of laziness). Does the HN community still view it as a trusted source to make better buying decisions?
I use it just about any time I'm buying something on Amazon that isn't from a trusted brand's store.
Re: Fakespot Is Acquired by Mozilla
#19Funnily enough, I happened to visit fakespot for the first time in ages today, after I discovered that reviewmeta is dead. It looks like the functionality has already been bundled into Firefox/Chrome extensions instead of being a standalone website, and they're already pushing an AI angle. That was quick.
Re: Fakespot Is Acquired by Mozilla
#20I'd really love for Mozilla to focus on actually... you know... building a web browser. There are 1,000's of issues firefox needs to improve, from integrating native gnome-keyring support, to performance, to porting to rust, to... Let me PM or run Mozilla for a year. We won't buy any more companies, and we're going to focus on engineering.
I suspect Mozilla is large enough that they can do more than one thing at once. Some finance and legal people spending time on an acquisition is not the reason they haven't integrated gnome-keyring.