Royce WilliamsI don't buy that Mozilla "couldn't find a sustainable model" for Fakespot. I would have paid $20/year or more for a subscription ... but no one asked. 🤔
j-r conlinTo be fair, I found Fakespot to be just slightly better than random flags, and a number of products I was looking at either had out of date recommendations, or drastically changed after I hit the update.
Stuff running In The Cloud can be expensive as hell, and it may have just been too pricey to run without a huge, paying customer base, and perhaps that just wasn’t going to happen.
I really like the team behind Fakespot, and I wish there was a version I could run locally, but I don’t think the scale problem was easy to solve.
Matt Palmer@tychotithonus by virtue of the massive amount of money that Google pays them to be an ablative antitrust shield, Mozilla has always been afflicted by a variant of the Resource Curse (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse), and as such has never had to learn how to be a functional business. Hence it's not surprising that when they give it a (lackluster) try, they're not very good at it.
Captain_Faraday 
@tychotithonus Oh jeez, I haven’t been following that since I moved to Brave. I didn’t know they were sunsetting Fakespot! That service was awesome!
Freddie Leeman@tychotithonus TIL this even existed! Anything similar worth checking out?
@freddieleeman The Hacker News thread discusses alternatives, but they all seem to fall short of the feature set.