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Might be easier to just disable reviews on Amazon if you’re trying to block fake reviews lol.
Its not a technology issue so I dont think amazon will be in trouble at all
Always sort by 1 star. And if the comments share similar issues. Do not buy.
No… 2 to 4 star reviews are more realistic. 5 star reviews are either fake or they got lucky and nothing bad happened. 1 star reviews usually are from people that were PISSED OFF while 2 to 4 star reviews are generally from people with more nuanced opinions than “this product cured my cancer” or “this product set fire to my cat and stole my significant other”
We’re switching to Firefox!
Just did it.
I’ve been using fakespot for a few months now and it seems hit or miss a lot of times. I’m hoping that Mozilla has been making changes to improve the implementation of how it checks reviews.
I’m confused. Teachers/professors have said that using AI to detect papers written by AI is highly unreliable. How can this work effectively with a much smaller sample of text to work with (even when it looks for “similarities” between multiple reviews)? What happens in a week when Amazon starts writing fake reviews in different tones/“voices”/styles that are intentionally difficult or impossible to compare?
It’s more than just bots, a lot are copy pasted 5 star reviews on shitty products. Or take for instance when sellers are allowed to completely change the listing but still have old reviews from a totally different product. Hopefully this is what they will filter out.
Damn. Me too.
ok GPT, please rewrite this review in the style of a [(agerange),(sexual orientation),(occupation),(locale)] who is satisfied with the performance of the product being reviewed.
I’m confused. Teachers/professors have said that using AI to detect papers written by AI is highly unreliable.
Probably 99% of fake reviews have not been written by AI. Just copy/paste bots or cheap copy/paste workers.
Fakespot used to reveal more about how they detected fakes, but as you say there are obvious issues with that, as it’s a bit of an arms race. They don’t just look at the text of the individual review though. Folks who buy reviews tend to get them from “review farms” that do reviews for a lot of products, and they don’t have an infinite number of Amazon accounts to use for that, so there are network effects that can be powerful indicators, and that aren’t easy for manipulate.
firefox hitting homeruns on user-friendliness with actually useful features that protect you online, while all other browser just wanna put more ads in front of your face.
I’m literally the only person I know that does reviews on amazon.
That’s including a circle of a dozen plus relatives I’m friendly enough with to make small talk, three good friends, my wife, my disability/chronic pain support group, the volunteer group I take part in, and a handful of online friends.
Like, you’d think one other person would get bored in the middle of the night and do reviews of stuff that they buy.
But there’s always a shit ton of ai generated or copy/paste dreck you have to wade through to get to real people, and even then they may be shills or have been paid to change a review (no shit, I’ve been offered double and triple the original cost to change bad reviews).
I know two, plus one other who only reviews when it is very bad. Just always look at middle and low end reviews, and be very extremely choosy about sellers, and roll the dice.
I’d do it if you could leave fully anonymous reviews. But I’m not about to review products with my real name attached to them, even if it’s just first name.
My account is old enough it doesn’t have my real name attached.
That makes me want to use firefox less.
I don’t need a nanny-control to tell me what’s fake and what’s real.
Then you can ignore/turn it off? It’s also a function to protect users from malicious online behavior, dunno how that could be interpreted as a nanny, unless you also insist browsers shouldn’t warn you when accessing known malware links or similar. If you really insist on having the absolute freedom to not be advised about it when you’re being scammed then go off I guess.
This has the same energy as someone who says they want to drive a car less because it has seatbelts installed.
Like fine - its a useful tool that might prevent you being scammed which just displays information you can easily ignore- better run away.
Sifting through reviews to find real criticism is tedious. I never asked for this feature expecting it to become a reality, but I won’t turn my nose at time saved at 0 expense. As long as it isn’t used for marketing or fingerprinting, what’s the issue? Note: I might be missing your sarcasm, I’m tired.
This will work for 15 microseconds before people start deploying it as an adversarial training aid.
Came here to say this.
Guess it’ll have to be a live service that is constantly running and updating what a wonderful world
So, this sounds like just another AI-authorship detector, which haven’t been very successful so far.
This is nothing to get excited about. Like so many other things there will be constant innovations on both sides. It’s an arms race between the scammers and the scam detectors.
We literally just want passkeys and native PWA’s (add-ons do not count), and an interface optimized for Android tablets. And I refuse to use Firefox again until these things are added.
This is incredibly out of scope for a browser feature set.
I mean I don’t particularly like firefox either (although it’s still probably the browser I dislike the least), but firefox needs users to keep google from having complete control over the web.
but firefox needs users to keep google from having complete control over the web.
Okay, but then what does that make Apple with Safari powered by WebKit (and it’s mandated use on iOS)? In addition to the few and between browsers that make use of it like GNOME Web.
If there’s anything I’d want built in more than anything it would be vertical tabs like what the existing sideberry extension provides. I also use Vivaldi which has it native, and I’ve been hooked ever since.
Edit: and tab manager plus. Same functionality and interface but native.
The existing extensions are fine, but if they are wanting to add things already provided by a third party, those two are my must haves for a modern browsing experience.
How are vertical tabs better than horizontal ones?
easier to scroll and read and works good in wider monitors plus tabs don’t get so small you can’t read the title anymore cause its just a fixed space
Cause after I have 60 tabs open I can still tell what they are cause I can read the title, not just see the fav icon.
Praise Vivaldi
These two pretty much explained my reasons for switching to vertical. It did take a day or so to become accustomed to it, but now it feels pretty natural.
Vertical tabs to me are perfect next step in browser gui, just like when tabs became a thing to begin with.
In this case, I would check out the Floorp browser. It is a Firefox fork that plans to be more like Vivaldi and have lots of features, including vertical tabs.
Thanks, will do
I just want native vertical tabs lmao
what’s a vertical tab
Where the tabs are on the side of the desktop screen instead of the top.
And i just want a tab bar on Android tablets/foldables like every other browser.
I’ve been using Sidebery with some userchrome to hide the top tabs, and it’s a workable solution, but far from ideal.
I also wish keybindings were configurable. For example, with the “/” search, ctrl-g/G to go to next/prev match is really weird
Tried Sidebery too with some basic hidden UI CSS but having to keep it up to date makes it clunky at times, leagues away from Edges implementation where it’s just a toggle away.
