As you already know, October marks the return of Prime Day, the discount-heavy celebration that takes place shortly before Black Friday, so shopping dates are approaching and we’re bringing you a tool to help you choose products. Specifically, a web browser extension that can be used to spot fake reviews.

As you also know, the problem fake reviews on amazon It comes from afar, and more than once it has made us consider their usefulness, because if they are not reliable, they can hardly be useful. And when evaluating a product purchase, reviews from previous buyers are one of the essential sources.

There have been several tricks around reviews, from fake reviews to removing authentic ones, which is still a way to change the perception of users, and although Amazon has tried to avoid all types of fraud, they even go so far as to expel hundreds of companies that promoted these practices, but apparently there’s always room for anything to creep onto a platform the size of Amazon.

That’s why you might be interested fake spot, a web browser extension that helps you spot fraudulent reviews trying to trick you. Its basic controls are simple, although if you want to go deeper, it allows you to do so. In any case, we will stick to the basics, which are worth starting with. The first thing of course is to install the extension:

• Fakespot for Firefox
• Fakespot for Chrome

Don’t forget that the Chrome extension is compatible with the main Chromium derivatives (Brave, Microsoft Edge, Opera, Vivaldi…).

Once installed, you will go to the Amazon product you are interested in and next to the shopping table you will see a new button to analyze the opinions. A new page will open and the process will take some time depending on the article and the number of comments it has, and at the end it will return a note that you can compare with the one on Amazon.

For example, imagine the product you are looking at It has five stars on Amazon but only two on Fakespot…There you have a clear warning that the reviews are not completely reliable. And I say not entirely, because this expansion, like Amazon’s efforts to curtail this type of fraudulent practice, is not infallible.

In reality, it is more It is important to pay attention to the return conditions, in case the purchase goes wrong for you. Use Fakespot wisely, as another tool, not as something definitive. By the way, this is also useful for comparison in other large online stores, although it is focused more on the Anglo-Saxon market.

Besides reviews, how about a tool to get the Amazon products you’re interested in at the best price? Here it is: the Camelizer that everyone who shops on Amazon must have.