Chrome-Stats extension
NewsGuard
NewsGuard's red/green rating and labels help users know which news and information websites to trust.
Total ratings for NewsGuard
3.37
(Rating count:
242)
User reviews summary
These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews.
Firefox Browser Add-ons does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate,
spammy, or outdated.
Pros
- Plugin is useful for identifying trustworthy news sources.
- Ratings are well-researched, explained, and include sources.
- Provides a sense of safety and comfort by filtering out untrustworthy news.
Cons
- Considered not impartial by some users.
- Requires payment or sign-up for full features, which is off-putting for some.
- Seen as a form of censorship, particularly against conservative views.
- Criticism for potential privacy issues and data collection.
Most mentioned
- Requirement of payment or sign-up
- Bias and partiality in fact checking
- Censorship concerns, especially for conservative content
- Data privacy and potential for data breaches
- Comparison to Orwell's 'Ministry of Truth' and '1984'
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Recent reviews for NewsGuard
Recent rating average:
2.20
All time rating average:
3.37
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| Date | Author | Rating | Comment |
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| 2024-04-04 | MisterAlex |
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Extension does nothing without paying for a subscription. |
| 2024-02-09 | Vikne |
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Warning False fact checking. This filter isn't impartial. |
| 2023-09-26 | Firefox user 17953219 |
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| 2023-09-01 | NT |
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| 2023-08-03 | PAUL_D74 |
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| 2023-05-27 | Firefox user 15237927 |
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This plugin is great! I hated having to apply critical thought to the news stories I was reading, so exhausting! Now I browse away in safety and comfort, secure in the knowledge that all my thinking is being done for me by professionals! I really hope ReligionGuard is in the works??? |
| 2023-04-13 | SuNin |
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You have to pay to use it? That seems ridiculous to me. I don't want to sign up for anything, I'm not interested in your free trial of anything. I just want to know if a site can be trusted and what the rating is and what to watch out for. If you don't have to pay, you still have to sign up, there doesn't seem to be a way to bypass that screen. I don't need some shady company collecting information on my internet search habits. These guys are a data breach waiting to happen. |
| 2023-03-28 | Paulie |
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Es kann wohl nicht wahr sein, dass auf der Mozilla Seite ein Add-on angeboten wird, welches konservative und andere nicht willkommene Meinungen aus dem Netz zu verdrängen sucht. Ich traue keinem Faktenchecker, dazu sollte jeder halbwegs intelligenter Mensch selbst in der Lage sein. |
| 2023-03-27 | Firefox user 17839720 |
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vermeintlicher Faktenchecker - ein Fall für das Wahrheitsministerium! |
| 2023-03-27 | Mozzillarella |
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Orwell würde es lieben. |
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