Today marks the official shutdown of Fakespot, the browser extension that analyzed online reviews across Amazon, eBay, BestBuy, and more. There is now no clear solution to see if your products are fake and reviewed by bots.

This is a sign of the future the internet has already been heading towards. The shutdown of Fakespot makes it easier for AI junk and products to flood every corner of the internet. Have fun!

Mozilla, the company behind Firefox acquired Fakespot in 2023. They’re struggling to keep their products alive. Even Firefox. Google owns more and more of the internet everyday, you can’t run an ad-free privacy focused browser like Firefox anymore. Mozilla runs mostly on donations, and those are almost done. It’s hard to keep a product free and ethical. Mozilla shutting down their products to just keep their main product alive shows their struggle. It marks the end of the truly “open internet” for anyone, by anyone.

With Google Chrome now controlling browser market share, it’s getting harder for independent tools and companies to survive unless they strictly follow what Big Tech wants. Google controls what you see on the internet, it’s been like that for a while.

Scams are getting smarter, faster, and cheaper to run. Dropshipping schemes, fake TikTok product endorsements, and AI Written reviews just to name a few.

Start questioning everything. Support the very few tools and creators that are still open-source and have some remaining integrity. One day you’ll wake up and realize we handed the whole internet over to a few top corporations that don’t care about it’s users. Face the truth.