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Bot Sentinel
Automatically identify inauthentic accounts and toxic Twitter trolls.
What is Bot Sentinel?
"Bot Sentinel" is a free, non-partisan Firefox add-on that employs machine learning and artificial intelligence to automatically detect and track inauthentic Twitter accounts and toxic trolls. It hosts these accounts in a public database accessible to all users - improving Twitter's environment.
Stats
By:
BotSentinel.com
Rating:
4.02
(134)
Creation date:
2018-04-04
Weekly download count:
5
Firefox on Android:
Yes
Risk impact:
Very high risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Low risk likelihood
Manifest version:
2
Permissions:
- *://botsentinel.com/*
- *://*.botsentinel.com/*
- *://twitter.com/*
- *://*.twitter.com/*
- storage
Size:
186.23K
URLs:
Website
,Privacy policy
Stats date:
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Summary
Bot Sentinel is a free non-partisan platform developed to classify and track inauthentic accounts and toxic trolls. The platform uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to classify Twitter accounts, and then adds the accounts to a publicly available database that anyone can browse.
User reviews
User reviews summary
These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews.
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spammy, or outdated.
Pros
- Helps identify inauthentic and problematic Twitter users
- Works well in updated systems like Win 11 with Firefox 118.0.1
- Allows you to block, mute, and report troublesome Twitter users
- Non politically biased in tagging
- Makes browsing Twitter easier and saner
Cons
- Considered to be closed source
- Suspected of violating GDPR Law
- Possibly accesses history and shows signs of malware
- Perceived to have an underlying political bias and promotes propaganda
- Inconsistent functionality with missing features
Most mentioned
- Helps identify and block disruptive Twitter users
- Some perceive it to have political bias
- Issues with functionality and features of the add-on
- Screen jumping issue
- GDPR violation and access to user information
Recent reviews
The vast majority of accounts show "unknown" and I have to click and wait for over a minute to get a report, which sometimes never happens. Also, a very obvious bot was marked as "normal", so it's not even reliable when all the stars are aligned. Uninstalled after a few minutes.
by
n/a, 2024-04-02
Why this important extension is closed source? Not making sense at all
by
sha-265, 2023-10-26
Safety
Risk impact
Bot Sentinel is very risky to use and it requires a lot of sensitive permissions. Avoid installing this add-on unless you absolutely trust this publisher.
Risk likelihood
Bot Sentinel has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.
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