Fakespot Alternative

The Fakespot alternative that shows its work

Mozilla shut down Fakespot on July 1, 2025, leaving the 10 million people who relied on it without a way to check Amazon reviews. SureVett is a free Chrome extension that brings back the A–F trust grade, and unlike the old tool, it shows you the reasoning behind every score.

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What happened to Fakespot

Mozilla acquired Fakespot in 2023 and retired it on July 1, 2025. At the announcement in May 2025, Mozilla reported more than 10 million users. Overnight, all of them lost the tool they used to sanity-check a product's reviews before buying.

The replacements that filled the gap have been uneven. Some return nearly the same score for every product. Others quietly rewrite your Amazon links to carry their own affiliate tags. SureVett was built to be the one you can actually trust: a grade that moves with the product, and reasoning you can inspect.

How SureVett compares

FeatureSureVettFakespot (dead)RateBudNullFake
Auto-analysis on pageYesYesYesNo
Trust grades (A-F)YesYesYesYes
Shows reasoningYesevery score explainedNoPartialYes
FreeYesYesYesYes
No affiliate links on AmazonYesno URL rewritingYesNoYes
Multi-platformChrome ✅ / iPhone soonChrome, Firefox, iOSChrome onlyChrome only
Open sourceNoNoNoYes
Active developmentYesthresholds tuned in 2026NoYesYes

RateBud is the closest like-for-like replacement, but it carries documented trust caveats around affiliate links and scores that barely move; here's how RateBud compares head-to-head. For the wider field, including the tools this table leaves out, read our full rundown of every Fakespot alternative.

What SureVett does

SureVett grades every Amazon product page from six review-trust signals, and shows you the score and a plain-English explanation for each one.

Rating distribution (the J-curve test)

Genuine products tend to follow a J-shaped curve of star ratings. Manipulated listings often don't.

Verified purchase ratio

The share of reviews from confirmed purchases, not unverified or incentivized ones.

Review velocity

How fast reviews arrived relative to the product's age. Sudden bursts are a flag.

Review count

How much data there is to judge, and how confident the grade can be.

Seller trust

Whether the listing ships from Amazon, FBA, or a third-party seller.

Brand and product signals

Brand-name patterns, Best Sellers Rank, answered questions, and listing age.

Prefer to do it yourself? The same red flags SureVett automates are ones you can check in a couple of minutes: how to identify fake reviews by hand.

Private by design

SureVett grades products in your browser, from public review data on the page you're already viewing. No account is required, there is no tracking, and no data is sold. It only asks for access to the retail sites it supports, Amazon today, not “all websites.” The full privacy policy spells out exactly what SureVett does and doesn't touch.

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