A Fakespot alternative for Amazon in 2026

Updated November 10, 2026

Short answer: Fakespot is gone, and nothing does exactly what it did. If what you want is an Amazon search page without the made-up brands and copycat junk, ClearCart is a free browser extension that hides them right on the results page, entirely on your device. It does not grade reviews. Here is what changed and how the two compare.

What happened to Fakespot

Fakespot was bought by Mozilla in 2023 and shut down on July 1, 2025. Its website, browser extensions and apps all stopped working, and the Review Checker built into Firefox, which used Fakespot, was switched off too. Mozilla said at the time that it was focusing its resources on Firefox itself.

What Fakespot did: you opened a product page (or pasted a link) and it sent that listing to Fakespot's servers, which analyzed the reviews and returned a letter grade for how trustworthy they looked, plus a summary. It worked on Amazon and a number of other stores. Plenty of people relied on it, and it filled a real gap.

What ClearCart does differently

• It works on the search results page. ClearCart scores every listing on an Amazon or Walmart search page and folds the junk into a slim bar that says why, such as Hiddenmade-up brand nameclick to reveal. One click brings any listing back. Nothing is deleted.
• It looks for the listing patterns junk relies on: made-up brand names (random letters no person chose), copycat listings (one product relisted under several fake brands), inflated list prices (a "typical price" of $249.99 on a $19.97 item), missing brands and keyword-stuffed titles. It recognizes 6,800+ real brands and gives credit for real review volume, so established products are left alone.
• Everything runs on your device. No server, no account, no analytics, no affiliate links, and no data collected. The only network request the extension can make is the license check for the optional Pro purchase. The privacy policy takes two minutes to read.
• It does not analyze review text. ClearCart reads how many reviews a listing has and its star rating, and notices when "different" brands share one identical pool of reviews. It never reads or grades what reviewers wrote.

The full list of signals, and what pulls a listing's score down, is on how ClearCart works.

An honest comparison

So: if what you miss is a verdict on one product's reviews, ClearCart won't give you that. If what you miss is not having to wade through junk, it does that job one step earlier, on the search page.

How to check a listing yourself

With or without an extension, a minute of looking catches most of it:

1. Read the brand name out loud. If it is a string of capital letters nobody could pronounce, search it outside Amazon. Real brands have a website and a history.
2. Search the title. If the same photos and wording turn up under several different "brands", it is one product being relisted.
3. Weigh the rating against the count. 4.9 stars from 12 reviews tells you very little. Thousands of reviews over years tell you a lot.
4. Read the newest reviews, and check they describe this product. Reviews for a different item, color or size on the same page are a sign of merged or recycled listings.
5. Ignore the struck-through "list price". A permanent 80–90% discount is not a discount. Compare the price elsewhere before you trust it.
6. Look at who sells and ships it. A seller name that doesn't match the brand, and long shipping times, often mean a reseller of a generic item.

There is more in how to spot a dropshipped listing and the longer write-up, looking for a Fakespot alternative?

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