Reviews for Knockoff - Amazon Brand Filter
Knockoff - Amazon Brand Filter by Ordinary Systems
Review by Firefox user 16970550
Rated 2 out of 5
by Firefox user 16970550, 12 days ago40 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Tarn, 3 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Blindgänger, 3 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 20049392, 7 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 20049389, 7 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 20049382, 7 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Quinnypig, 7 days agoThis shows a level of Customer Obsession that once upon a time Amazon themselves would have embraced. The fact that something like this has to exist is a stunning indictment of how far from its roots Amazon has come.
I'm glad this exists, but also sad that it has to. - Rated 5 out of 5by joe28753, 7 days agoStill seems like early days, with occasional false positives or false negatives. But it’s very promising, the community can contribute feedback to improve it, and the developer is very responsive to feedback with lots of quick updates.
- Rated 1 out of 5by LeadR, 7 days ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Laurazepam, 8 days agoWould recommend, but it needs more work. The knockoff brand name recognition isn't perfect (especially for non-English brand names), but they are actively improving it. The privacy policy seems absolutely sensible to me. Yeah some things are technically private browsing data, but how else would this work? Would feel better about it if it was opensource tho. Is there really a good reason for a browser extension to not be opensource nowadays? Still, it's a useful tool.
Developer response
posted 7 days agoThanks for the feedback! Definitely pushing out updates every day to improve the brand name recognition.
A number of the ways we make the recognition more accurate is by sending some on-page data about the seller to our servers (where we've got a MUCH larger database than can be realistically bundled with a browser extension). That's what those additional browser permissions enable.
Definitely keep the feedback coming. If you notice any funny business just hit the "Send Feedback" button in the extension and I'll dig into it! - Rated 1 out of 5by quikket, 8 days agoIst verkommen zu
- invasiven Berechtigungsanfragen
- Injektion von Werbung (s. Website unter "advertise")
- Closed Source ...
Schade, war anfangs wirklich gut. - Rated 1 out of 5by MedPlex, 8 days agoAnfangs alles top aber mit jedem Update kamen Datenabfragen und Zugriffsanfragen dazu...
- Rated 5 out of 5by johnnyp, 10 days agoone of the of the most useful tools ive seen created for the average consumer. amazing work.
- Rated 5 out of 5by WA, 10 days agoThis is an extremely helpful extension, I can't believe how much better this makes Amazon shopping.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Salix223, 11 days ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 20036283, 13 days agoBe very careful. This extension seemed like a great idea and I started happily using it in large part because the developer stated that "Everything runs locally in your browser. No accounts, no analytics, no tracking. The only network request is a daily brand-list refresh." However, in the last update the extension now requires a new permission to "collect website content." No information about the purpose of the data collection or the specific data being collected is provided.
Mozilla does provides a link to “Learn More” about the new permission being granted. Their definition of the term ‘website content’ takes a bit of work to find but it seems to be “covers anything visible on a website — such as text, images, videos, and links — and anything embedded, such as cookies, audio, page headers, and request and response information.”
This may or may not be okay. I’m not sure but I am certainly not taking the update until the developer provides more clarity on the purpose of this new permission and what data the extension can and can not collect (e.g., my user name and password, email address, etc.). In any case, the fact that an update was issued with this new permission required with no explanation is very problematic.
Update: the developer's response seems reasonable, but I still would have much preferred if he had left the data collection effort out of the extension entirely. It does not add that much and it certainly provides an opportunity for an unscrupulous individual or entity to obtain valuable user information at any time in the future. So unfortunately, I am going to delete what would have been a very valuable and useful extension. A decision to make it safe again would bring me right back.Developer response
posted 12 days agoSorry about the lack of clarity! Firefox doesn't really provide a great way to surface "why" around a change in permissions (at least not one that doesn't require you to go digging through buried extension changelogs). At any rate.
You're right. That quote is mine, from the 0.1.0 notes. It was true then, but it isn't now, and shipping the change without telling you is my mistake.
0.7.0 and 0.8.0 added two features, both on by default, both switchable off in options:
1. "Seller country" sends seller IDs to show where a seller is based.
2. "Help pick US alternatives" sends the ASIN, title, brand, and seller ID of product pages you open.
To your question: no, it cannot see your username, password, or email. It reads a few specific product elements and sends only those fields. Never form inputs, cookies, searches, or orders. Server-side it's one row per product with a view counter. No IP, session, or account stored beside it.
The labels are Firefox's fixed vocabulary. There's no bucket for "just the product page you're on," so I declared the honest maximum rather than under-declare. Mozilla's definition describes the category ceiling, not what Knockoff does.
Working on updating our Firefox listing now to clarify this.
Thanks for the feedback! - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 20035832, 14 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Andrew G Lucas, 14 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Mr Leaf, 14 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by davidohara, 15 days agoMandatory for using Amazon.
God bless the developers.
I cannot use Amazon without using this. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14665809, 16 days agoWorks as described. I was looking for an OEM item in Amazon the other day. The results even with a brand name were so full of knockoffs that I thought they didn't carry what I was looking for. Surprise, they do sell it and only because I used the plugin was I able to find what I was looking for. Thanks!
- Rated 5 out of 5by RN, 16 days agoYou are doing God's work. Absolute kudos, I'm gonna go look and see if I can sponsor you on GitHub.
- Rated 5 out of 5by qwertzu, 17 days agoworks well, I wish it would expand to other platforms than Amazon
- Rated 5 out of 5by riot, 17 days agoMan. We used to get addons/extensions like this back in the day all of the damn time. What a simple idea executed to perfection. Love the ability to hide or dim. Now if Amazon brought back the ability to comment on peoples reviews that'd be great.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19659081, 17 days ago