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by PenguinCoder 2887 days ago
Good questions:

From their privacy policy[1]

Additionally when you make a purchase or attempt to make a purchase through the Service, we collect certain information from you, including your name, billing address, shipping address, payment information (including credit card numbers), email address, and phone number. We refer to this information as “Order Information.”

We share your Personal Information with third parties to help us use your Personal Information, as described above. We use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Service. You can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Finally, we may also share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.

That said, I don't use their browser extensions so I'm not sure how they (if they) monetize that. I just paste in the URL to the product I suspect is 'too goo to be true' into the fakespot site. If it passes that, I do my own other digging on the item to determine if I think I can 'trust it'. Mainly, co-mingled inventory, seller ratings, cherry picked 1-star and 5 star reviews, other review websites, etc.

[1]https://www.fakespot.com/privacy-policy