It tried to show how authentic a product review was
cant say if it was accurate or not
cy_narrator@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Nobody liked Pocket so its not surprising, btw what was that Fakespot thing?
Little8Lost@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I feel like that’s a critical function lmao
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Unfortunately hard to verify, plus its technically still an opinion written in code by someone.
Vorticity@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I used fakespot a lot. It used huristics to attempt to determine how authentic a product’s reviews are. It analyzed the reviews for things like repeated phrases, odd review activity like bragading, and other things. It then gave a letter grade to the veracity of the reviews and an “adjusted” aggregate review score after removing any reviews that it considered to be suspicious.
I’m going to miss fakespot. I don’t know how accurate it was but it definitely informed my decisions.
MrMcGasion@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Fakespot was somewhat accurate at catching when Amazon sellers take a well-reviewed item and swap out the product for another, by changing the title, description, and pictures. We’ve probably all read a review on Amazon that feels like the reviewer is posting a review of a completely different product, like a review that seems to be about a kitchen utinsil on a listing for an unusually affordable camera. It’s a pretty common scam that Fakespot was pretty good at catching. It didn’t seem as good at adjusting ratings for legit products and seemed to kind of randomly knock off a a half to one and a half stars on pretty much every listing, even on quality products.
ghostBones@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Alternative? 11Labs Reader will let you build an article library and will read them to you with superior voicing then pocket ever had.