doppio19

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by doppio19 1y ago
Thanks! Advertising is certainly a possibility, though I'm not sure using affiliate links in the browser extension itself will be an option. I know Google recently changed their policy on how browser extensions can manipulate affiliate
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by doppio19 1y ago
That's interesting! Did you have any guesses as to what might have been setting it off to mark those reviews as false positives?
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by doppio19 1y ago
I'm actively working on one at https://www.truestar.pro because I couldn't find a drop-in alternative to Fakespot. I also wrote a blog post last week about the state of alternatives: https://blog.truestar.pr
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by doppio19 1y ago
I mentioned it briefly in the blog post, but this is exactly what I'm working on! Essentially, a spiritual successor to Fakespot that combines LLM analysis, more traditional ML techniques, and rule-based heuristics to detect fake revie
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by doppio19 1y ago
I found that it did a pretty decent job. Certainly not 100% accurate, but it often picked up on signals that made me give a closer look at a listing than I would have otherwise. I'm sure detection is getting harder as LLMs' writin
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by doppio19 1y ago
Yup! And today's the day.
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by doppio19 1y ago
Not that I'm aware of. But I do know that in late 2024, Amazon made a change where users now have to be logged in to view product reviews beyond the ones that appear on the first page (about 8 reviews). From what I can tell, Fakespot
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Fakespot shuts down today after 9 years of detecting fake product reviews(blog.truestar.pro)
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by doppio19 1y ago
For the unfamiliar, Fakespot was a browser extension that flagged suspicious product reviews on sites like Amazon. Mozilla bought it just two years ago and integrated it directly into Firefox as their "Review Checker" feature. Tod
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by doppio19 3y ago
I can believe it. I rode in a Waymo for the first time a couple days ago and it was incredible. No problems with the rain or bad San Francisco drivers. It was a really smooth ride and I felt extremely safe.
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by doppio19 3y ago
No, ChatGPT is more than just a UI for the OpenAI API. Web requests are a feature built into ChatGPT using the API's support for function calls, but the API doesn't make any external web requests by itself.
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by doppio19 3y ago
Same - frankly, it's crazy how often the service is interrupted for paying users.
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by doppio19 3y ago
Sorry for the naïve question, but why would I need this when most apps are distributed on Google Play? Are a lot of FOSS developers publishing on F-Droid instead of Google Play because of disagreements about Google's TOS?