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Fakespot has one of the worst privacy policies. https://www.fakespot.com/privacy-policy

Look at Section 2B

  B. Personal Information Collected Automatically
  We may collect personal information automatically when you use our Services.

  Automatic Collection of Personal Information.

  We may collect the following information automatically when you use our Services:
  Contact Information:
  Your email address
  Identifiers:
  User ID: Such as screen name, handle, account ID, or other user- or account-level ID that can be used to identify a particular user or account. This information could be provided via your Fakespot account, Apple ID, Google Account, or other accounts you may use on the Services. User ID also includes your account password, other credentials, security questions, and confirmation codes.

  Device ID: Your device information which includes, but is not limited to, information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device.

  Usage Data:
  Product Interaction: How you interact with our Services and what features you use within the Services, including Fakespot’s sort bar, highlights, review grade, seller ratings, alternative sellers, settings and popups.

  Other Usage Data: Individual web pages or products that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the Service, and other information about how you interact with the Service.

  Browser Information: Information your internet browser provides when you access and use our Services.

  Application Search History: Information you provide when you perform searches in our Services.

  Purchase Information: Your purchase history or purchase tendencies which we may use to recommend better products and sellers.

  Location Information. We may collect your location information, such as geolocation based on your IP address in connection with your use of our Services.

  Publicly Available Information. In providing our Services we may collect data (including personal information such as profile names of reviewers) that is made publicly available via the internet on the websites analyzed and crawled by our Services.



Awww :( I was blissfully unaware of this and happily using it regularly. Thanks for sharing :(


I wonder if at some point it will be like one of those super-intrusive anti-cheat systems?

Honestly, I like the idea of having an offline LLM




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