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Re:Fakespot shuts down today after 9 years of detecting fake... by rasz on Tuesday July 01, 2025 @06:39PM (#44438602)
Did Mozilla score some absolutely unrelated deal with Amazon by any chance recently? They killed DeepSpeech very same day NVIDIA paid them $1.5mil
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Re:Fakespot shuts down today after 9 years of detecting fake... by doppio19 on Tuesday July 01, 2025 @07:00PM (#44438738)
Not that I'm aware of. But I do know that in late 2024, Amazon made a change where users now have to be logged in to view product reviews beyond the ones that appear on the first page (about 8 reviews). From what I can tell, Fakespot scraped the Amazon product listing pages on their backend, so that simple change would have pretty much killed its current implementation.
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Re:Fakespot shuts down today after 9 years of detecting fake... by rasz on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @08:49AM (#44443117)
Indeed. You would need a plugin running on user computers, or maybe even control over User Agent. Insurmountable blocker for Mozilla.
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Re:Fakespot shuts down today after 9 years of detecting fake... by i80and on Tuesday July 01, 2025 @06:54PM (#44438706)
DeepSpeech shuttered in 2021. The repo was just made read-only the other day
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Re:Fakespot shuts down today after 9 years of detecting fake... by rasz on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @08:46AM (#44443097)
April 12 2021

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-partners-with-nv...

https://venturebeat.com/business/mozilla-winds-down-deepspee...

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Re:Fakespot shuts down today after 9 years of detecting fake... by ashoeafoot on Tuesday July 01, 2025 @07:21PM (#44438841)
So they wrote a ping pong shader for monetization going with the user or selling out the user.
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