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Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, their read-it-later and content discovery app, and Fakespot, their browser extension that analyzes the authenticity of online product reviews. (blog.mozilla.org)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Mozilla should make Fakepost source code open-source so that people (with right hardware) can self-host it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Seriously. If they're not even interested in making money off it anymore then why not?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If it's open source how easy will it be for others then to game the system?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

There are open source tools for analyzing if github stars are fake, and they work reliably.

The kind of people that fake reviews/stars target are not the kind of people that are going to be verifying things.

As long as Amazon doesn't crack down, there isn't really a need to game the system.