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[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 23 points 1 month ago

It's astounding how stupid that decision was. Fakespot, quite literally a device to help deter people from buying products, was gobbled up by way too much money by Mozilla - who - apparently wanted it to make profit? How?! Why?! Why did they even buy it?

I think it was just executive idiocy. They searched for extensions with the term privacy in them, bought it, and thought it would make their product worth more. I'm getting really tired of companies just sunsetting products the instant they don't make money.

We really need an open version of fakespot.

[-] madcaesar@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I think it can be VERY valuable especially today with all the ai spam.

It's not about buying less, it's about people making you a trusted source when they look to buy.

I cannot believe they are stupidly abandoning this, it could be a gold mine

this post was submitted on 22 May 2025
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