Reviews for Knockoff - Amazon & Etsy Shopping Filter
Knockoff - Amazon & Etsy Shopping Filter by Ordinary Systems
Review by Blindgänger
Rated 1 out of 5
by Blindgänger, a month ago51 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 20105480, 2 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by genericname, 2 days agoI had high hopes for this addon when it first launched. The initial feature set was clean, effective, and looked genuinely promising. Unfortunately, it has taken a severe turn for the worse.
Recent updates suggest the extension has turned into a total data grab, tracking and collecting far more user data than what is ever necessary for its core functionality. To make matters worse, the developer has now made the source repository private, eliminating any transparency regarding what code is actually running behind the scenes. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 20093096, 8 days agoSeemed like a good start until recent update wants permissions to "access your data for all sites". Figured I'd take a look at source code and this addon's development was moved to a private repo and what's left to the public already has GenAI fingerprints all over it. Uninstalling.
- Rated 1 out of 5by asteen, 11 days agoWhat a great extension and awesome idea. However just like another reviewer I have a problem with it having to access browsing activity (history) and website content in the new update. This seems like spyware and contradictory to the description saying it's "private by design". The developer explains why it needs to read our browsing activity.
Developer response
posted 10 days agoValid critique and I just realized the Firefox app description wasn't auto-updating on releases like I thought it was, so that's on me. I've updated the app description to clarify, and I've also updated our privacy policy with more detail about those additional permissions.
https://knockoff.co/privacy
Ultimately Firefox gives very poor tools for control over these things so we're sort of left having to make wide-sweeping permissions requests.
Thanks again for the feedback! - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 17616578, 15 days agoNow requires browser history in the latest update. This is now spyware. Uninstalled.
- Rated 5 out of 5by LeoValiant, 19 days ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 20070079, 19 days agoConceptually a good idea, I can't find the advertised settings to make it work with etsy though? Also very US centred which is worth bearing in mind if you live anywhere else.
Developer response
posted 19 days agoEtsy hasn't rolled out to Firefox yet as Firefox has been holding the app in review (without updates) for nearly 2 weeks. - Rated 5 out of 5by Simon, 21 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by SuspiciousLampPost, 21 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17516052, 21 days agoone of my favorite extensions. tired of all the cheap brands on Amazon and this is solving it.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13279972, 23 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Tarn, a month ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 20049392, a month ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 20049389, a month ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 20049382, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Quinnypig, a month 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, a month 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, a month ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Laurazepam, a month 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 a month 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, a month 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, a month agoAnfangs alles top aber mit jedem Update kamen Datenabfragen und Zugriffsanfragen dazu...
- Rated 5 out of 5by johnnyp, a month agoone of the of the most useful tools ive seen created for the average consumer. amazing work.
- Rated 5 out of 5by WA, a month agoThis is an extremely helpful extension, I can't believe how much better this makes Amazon shopping.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Salix223, a month ago