楽天レビューシグナル — レビュー信頼度チェック icon

楽天レビューシグナル — レビュー信頼度チェック

楽天のレビューの「提供・モニター・PR」割合、日付の集中、短文・コピペ、星の偏りなどの注意サインを商品ページ上で表示します。

Works on
Chrome
Version
3.0.3

Every review on the page is five stars and four words long, and you have no way to weigh that against the ones that read like real use. A panel above the review list scores what is shown from 0 to 100 and names the patterns that pulled the number down.

Can you trust this review before buying? For that nagging doubt.

Rakuten Review Signal reads the reviews already shown on a product page and turns trust signals into a 0–100 score:

⚠️ These are heuristic reference signals only and do not declare any individual review or shop to be fraudulent.

Privacy: Nothing is sent to any server. It works only within the page you're viewing and collects no personal data.

What it does

  • Sponsored / monitor / PR

    detects labels like "提供を受けました", "モニター", "PR"

  • Date bursts

    reviews clustered on a specific day (a suspected shill sign)

  • Short / copy-pasted

    extremely short or duplicated reviews

  • Rating skew

    an unnatural pile-up of 5-star ratings

When you'd reach for it

  • Checking for gifted and PR reviews

    Japanese review pages often carry disclosure wording such as 提供を受けました, モニター, 案件 or 献本, buried in individual posts. The panel counts how many of the extracted reviews match those phrases and shows the share as a percentage, and that signal carries the heaviest penalty in the score. A separate line tracks points-and-coupon-for-review wording.

  • Reviews that all landed on the same day

    A cluster of posts on one date is one of the patterns the score reacts to. Dates are parsed from each review, both 2024年5月3日 and dotted or slashed formats, then measured for concentration across days. When the busiest day holds an unusual share of the total, a 特定日に集中 line appears with that share attached.

  • Reading past the star average

    Short and repeated text is treated as its own signal: reviews of about ten characters or less after whitespace is stripped, and identical text posted more than once. A five-star pile-up only counts against the score when it comes together with a high share of those short reviews, so a genuinely well-liked product does not get penalised for being popular.

Permissions & privacy

Single purpose

Analyze reviews already displayed on Rakuten pages and show heuristic trust signals as an on-page 0–100 badge. The extension does not scrape, crawl, or fetch anything; it only reads what is already visible to the user.

storageRakuten Review Signal uses the storage permission to cache the most recent analysis result locally via chrome.storage.local, so the popup can show the latest trust score without re-scanning the page. All data stays on the user's device and is never transmitted externally.
*://*.rakuten.co.jp/*Runs only on *://*.rakuten.co.jp/*.

It runs only the code shipped inside the package — no remote code is fetched.

Questions people ask

How do I check whether Rakuten reviews are fake?

You cannot prove it from a page, and this does not try to. It measures patterns that tend to accompany paid or solicited reviews and shows them as a 0-100 figure with the contributing signals listed, so you can read the reviews with the right amount of suspicion. The panel carries a note saying the result is heuristic and does not judge any individual review or shop.

How is the 0-100 score calculated?

It starts at 100 and subtracts weighted penalties. Sponsorship wording is the largest deduction, followed by short or duplicated text, date concentration, review-for-points wording, and last a five-star skew that only applies alongside many short reviews. Above 75 the panel reads 信頼サインは良好, from 45 to 74 it warns of caution signs, and below 45 it flags several suspicious ones.

Why does no panel appear on some Rakuten pages?

It needs at least three reviews it can actually read out of the page. Category listings, search results and items with one or two reviews therefore show nothing. The panel is inserted just above the review section, and the analysis reruns by itself when the page content or the URL changes, which covers moving between items without a full reload.

What permissions does it declare, and what does it store?

Two things are declared: the storage permission and host access to *://*.rakuten.co.jp/*, nothing wider. Storage caches the most recent result under a single key in chrome.storage.local so the toolbar popup can show it again; the host access lets the content script read the review text, dates and ratings that Rakuten has already rendered.

Does it work on English reviews or on other shopping sites?

No. The phrase lists that drive the sponsorship, incentive and generic-text signals are written for Japanese review wording, and the panel labels are in Japanese too. The content script runs only on rakuten.co.jp, so other Japanese marketplaces are out of scope. Star, date and duplicate-text signals do not depend on language, but the score as a whole is tuned for Japanese pages.

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