1mo ago

Review Checker will shut down tomorrow

Investing in what moves the internet forward | The Mozilla Blog

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.

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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 🤷
- I used it even before the Mozilla acquisition, when you had to paste the web page into Fake Spot. It was pretty good.
A feature that nobody used because they didn't advertise it is shutting down?
Hmmm...
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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.
- 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?

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