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Review Checker will shut down tomorrow (blog.mozilla.org)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/firefox@lemmy.world
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The Fakespot feature within Firefox known as Review Checker will shut down on June 10, 2025.

There goes the only feature that managed to move my wife towards a gecko based browser. l guess it's Brave for her now.

Mozilla acquired it two years ago. Bastards.

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[–] 2 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

I'm going to guess that if Mozilla couldn't make it cover its own costs, it wasn't able to do so independently either...

Still a shame for whoever found it useful of course.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Most Mozilla products don't cover their own costs. But if there ever was a loss leader to get people to use Firefox, that was it. Lockwise could be this way too. Their lead in PWAs with Prism was fantastic, they squandered it.

    And how tf did Mozilla fail to profit from their VPN when they could market it right in their browser?

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