As most humans are afraid to be against the consensus of the room, fake reviews and sentiment seeding is extremely effective against the general population. Also note that bad actors use it to create bad sentiment to it's competitors.

Anyone in the know care to sum up / list alternatives?

Reading reviews for the thing you are buying on the platform that you are buying it sounds a bit sketchy anyway.

Searching the product and reading about it from different review sites seems more reliable. Also can combine this with marketplace reviews considering reliability.

If there is no review than have to trust the brand and if there is no brand then it is a gamble

Could you fund this via a firm that litigated under consumer protection laws?

Do you even need Fakespot anymore for Amazon? I think we can fairly assume that whatever is purchased on that platform will be junk. I rarely purchase anything from Amazon these days except protein bars or items I treat as disposable. More often than not, when I order legitimate items, I get either counterfeit items or previously refunded items that are certainly not in "new" condition. I go into actual stores these days for any serious purchases.

I really loved their plugin.

9 years? I could have sworn I saw it in 2015, maybe even 2014.

Do we need to start a killedbymozilla.com?

I think by now I have quickly learnt that they can just read all the worst reviews and see if they can: 1. put up with the drawbacks, 2. see how frequent manufacturing defects are. 5* reviews are only useful if they upload real images.

Still working for me, but I see the notice on their page. I assume it'll go dark at the end of the day.