Seemed 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.

What 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.

Now requires browser history in the latest update. This is now spyware. Uninstalled.

Conceptually 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.

one of my favorite extensions. tired of all the cheap brands on Amazon and this is solving it.

This 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.

Still 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.

Would 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.

Ist verkommen zu
- invasiven Berechtigungsanfragen
- Injektion von Werbung (s. Website unter "advertise")
- Closed Source ...
Schade, war anfangs wirklich gut.

Anfangs alles top aber mit jedem Update kamen Datenabfragen und Zugriffsanfragen dazu...

one of the of the most useful tools ive seen created for the average consumer. amazing work.

This is an extremely helpful extension, I can't believe how much better this makes Amazon shopping.

Be 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.