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

Post by gkbrk » Wed, Jul 02, 2025, 8:46 PM UTC

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Couldn't imagine what Mozilla would be like today if he stayed around and tried to integrate crypto. At the end of the day, main post shows Firefox engineering is keeping up with Chrome which is a feat no other browser has accomplished.

For the record I also dislike the top brass at Mozilla for the same reasons I dislike Eich - trendchasing instead of making a good browser. Firefox is succeeding because of the engineers and despite the c-suite.

Post by dns_snek » Thu, Jul 03, 2025, 7:24 AM UTC

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> At least for what I buy from aliexpress, it hasn’t been infiltrated by fake reviews. Aliexpress just fake it themselves. Search for anything, sort by the number of orders, open the product page for the first result. Next to the number of sales there's going to be a tooltip saying "Sales and ratings are calculated based on all identical products from the platform." Under reviews there's going to be a message saying…

I’ve never bought from AliExpress, but I’m pretty sure everyone does this. Customers are mostly looking for product reviews, not reviews on sellers. For example, take a mouse from Logitech. Even if five sellers sell the product, it’s better to show product reviews for every item. Isn’t that so?

Post by fransje26 » Thu, Jul 03, 2025, 2:02 PM UTC

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Leave honest reviews (not saying you're not) and don't feel dirty. You'd actually be helping.

They were mostly honest - I just always included something like 'an upgrade from my last one' but these clones are all so similar and all effective. Can do the whole house on a single charge, strong enough, has the low projecting light to highlight dust, high number of attachments. Does the job. I'm no vacuum connoisseur (Which you think I'd be after all of these) but none were scammy products.

Post by brookst » Thu, Jul 03, 2025, 7:17 PM UTC

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It’s fun to be outraged but a more nuanced read is that Amazon is stuck battling all kinds of fraud and it can be hard to differentiate. They also have a massive problem with fake bad reviews where a competitor spams competing products to try to increase sales of their own. They have so many flavors of fraud that it’s very hard to get it right consistently at scale. Not am Amazon fan, and please let’s not do the Redd…

> It’s fun to be outraged but a more nuanced read is that Amazon is stuck battling all kinds of fraud and it can be hard to differentiate. Well that's on Amazon then. They could go the Walmart route and enforce in-house random testing on the stuff they sell. Walmart, for all the rightful hate they get, Aldi, Lidl, Costco, Coop, they all have very strict and extensive negotiations for purchase, and they can, do and wi…

Post by theshackleford » Fri, Jul 04, 2025, 3:55 PM UTC

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Good product? Oh lord no. I just got to people before they could figure out it was bad. Note: I did not last long in this business before hitting the eject button.

I mean, that's a different issue. When you asked them, they were happy, they gave good feedback. I wonder if reviews should have a field for "how long have I owned it" (or even "about when did I buy it", to track changes in manufacturing quality). Places like TrustPilot would probably benefit from coming back to people and saying, "Here's a review you wrote a year ago; anything you want to add?" Manufacturers could e…