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      Mozilla acquires review-checking, scammer-spotting service Fakespot for Firefox

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Tuesday, 2 May, 2023 - 21:12

    Amazon product page with Fakespot analysis

    Enlarge / Fakespot adds letter grading, adjusted review scores, and other context ("New Seller Alert") to product pages across the web. (credit: Amazon/Fakespot)

    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 integrate it into Firefox .

    "We are joining a company that develops one of the most popular browsers in the world in Firefox with a lineage that dates back to the origins of the Internet," writes Saoud Khalifah, founder of Fakespot, on the company's site. "In Mozilla, we have found a partner that shares a similar mission as to what the future of the internet should look like, where the convergence of trust, privacy, and security play an imperative part of our digital experiences."

    Mozilla acquired the article-saving tool Pocket (formerly Read It Later) in February 2017 but had already integrated its extension directly into Firefox . Pocket was a key piece of what Mozilla calls its Context Graph , a kind of human-powered web discovery and understanding system. It's easy to see Fakespot as part of that.

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      Facebook rated the least safe e-commerce option in government rankings - Singapore's safety scheme measures scam-combatting capability

      GadgeteerZA · news.movim.eu / gadgeteerza-tech-blog · Tuesday, 17 May, 2022 - 10:23 · 1 minute

    A newly implemented e-commerce rating system in the city-state of Singapore has rated Facebook's Marketplace as the least trustworthy e-commerce platform, behind Amazon and its Alibaba-owned Asian analogue Lazada. The ratings system, known as the E-commerce Marketplace Transaction Safety Ratings (TSR) [PDF], was launched on May 14th by the Inter-Ministry Committee on Scams (IMCS).

    From personal experience, my own daughter has been defrauded twice via Facebook Marketplace. My own dealings with Amazon have not been bad, as they at least have a call centre which sorts things out for you. On Facebook's side, they have zero interest in sorting anything out, as it is mostly user to user sales. Locally we also have a marketplace called Bid or Buy, and they can act as the middle-person by accepting the client payment, you dispatch the goods, and then withdraw the funds from them if the buyer has received them in order. This has worked very well for me, as it also assures me that an actual payment has been made. I'd happily part with a small percentage for this service, as it gives the buyer some peace of mind too.

    See https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/17/facebook_rated_least_safe_ecommerce/

    #technology #marketplace #singapore #ecommerce

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