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I think this is a great acquisition, but I'm curious where this may give Mozilla an advantage. Do they plan on baking this into Firefox, and if so, to what degree are we willing to let the browser govern the content?

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It feels like this business has no real "moat." But I think for once that's not really a problem: I would hope Google decides they need to add comparable functionality to a browser!

And then maybe it can begin expanding for more general use... detecting likelihood of any content being artificial... hmm I'm scared again.

I imagine the moat is an ML model of inauthentic reviews. Getting training data for known inauthentic and known authentic reviews is difficult.

How can this strike you as a great acquisition if you aren't sure what the advantage is?

FakeSpot will benefit from a parent company like Mozilla.

By that standard, I could call you buying a $100 Amazon gift card and mailing it to me a great acquisition.

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