Pro@programming.dev to Firefox@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 days agoMozilla 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.orgexternal-linkmessage-square35fedilinkarrow-up1143arrow-down11cross-posted to: selfhosted@lemmy.world
arrow-up1142arrow-down1external-linkMozilla 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.orgPro@programming.dev to Firefox@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square35fedilinkcross-posted to: selfhosted@lemmy.world
minus-squaremoonpiedumplings@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 hours agoThere 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.
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.