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Mozilla announced the departures Thursday in a post on its blog, Distilled. According to the company, sunsetting Pocket and Fakespot will allow Mozilla to "focus [its] efforts on Firefox," the ...
Mozilla announced today that it has acquired Fakespot, a startup that offers a website and browser extension that helps users identify fake or unreliable reviews. The financial terms of the deal ...
Now, Mozilla is launching its first LLM (large language model) with the arrival of Fakespot Chat, an AI agent that will help consumers as they shop online by answering questions about the product ...
Mozilla is shutting down the Fakespot extensions, mobile apps, and websites on July 1, 2025 and the Fakespot Review Checker in Firefox will shut down on June 10, 2025.
Starting July 1, Mozilla says it will no longer support the plug-in Fakespot, which alerted online shoppers to false reviews posted on e-commerce websites like Amazon, Walmart, Best Buy and Target.
Mozilla has less to say about Fakespot's potentially altered future. "We’re grateful to the communities that made Pocket and Fakespot meaningful," Mozilla's post reads.
In addition to Pocket, Mozilla is also shuttering its Fakespot fake reviews detector, which the company acquired in 2023. The Fakespot-powered Review Checker feature in Firefox will stop working ...
Mozilla Fakespot Deep Fake Detector shuts down on June 26 2025. It says it's to save money, but is it a sign Mozilla is ...
Mozilla is sunsetting Pocket, the bookmarking tool used to save articles and webpages for later, on July 8th, 2025. Fakespot is going away, too. Pocket had a nearly two-decade-long run.
Pocket, Mozilla's service for saving articles to read later, is shutting down on July 8, 2025. Mozilla says it's phasing out Pocket and Fakespot, its browser extension for vetting product reviews ...
Fakespot, a useful service that explains how products you've never heard of could have 12,000 reviews with a 4.6-star average, has been acquired by Firefox-maker Mozilla, and Mozilla plans to ...
Mozilla is testing a new built-in “Review Checker” feature for its Firefox browser, powered by Fakespot, that rates how reliable a product listing’s customer reviews are.