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The Fakespot feature within Firefox known as Review Checker will shut down on June 10, 2025.

There goes the only feature that managed to move my wife towards a gecko based browser. l guess it’s Brave for her now.

Mozilla acquired it two years ago. Bastards.

  • kobra@lemmy.zip
    12·
    6 days ago

    Oddly enough I never knew the feature existed until the news broke that they’re shutting it down. Kind of wish I would have, but maybe it’s better to not know what was lost 🤷

    • Colloidal@programming.devOP
      7·
      6 days ago

      I used it even before the Mozilla acquisition, when you had to paste the web page into Fake Spot. It was pretty good.

  • Geodad@lemmy.world
    81·
    6 days ago

    A feature that nobody used because they didn’t advertise it is shutting down?

    Hmmm…

    • LWD@lemm.ee
      5·
      6 days ago

      A feature that only worked on 3 websites in 1 country, and was controversial in its own right before the Mozilla buyout. FakeSpot and its history deserve an autopsy

  • LWD@lemm.ee
    4·
    6 days ago

    Goodbye to browser.shopping.experience2023. You lasted not even two years.

  • Vincent@feddit.nl
    2·
    6 days ago

    I’m going to guess that if Mozilla couldn’t make it cover its own costs, it wasn’t able to do so independently either…

    Still a shame for whoever found it useful of course.

    • Colloidal@programming.devOP
      21·
      6 days ago

      Most Mozilla products don’t cover their own costs. But if there ever was a loss leader to get people to use Firefox, that was it. Lockwise could be this way too. Their lead in PWAs with Prism was fantastic, they squandered it.

      And how tf did Mozilla fail to profit from their VPN when they could market it right in their browser?