Critiques pour Knockoff - Amazon Brand Filter
Knockoff - Amazon Brand Filter par Ordinary Systems
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- Noté 2 sur 5par asteen, il y a 4 heuresWhat 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.
- Noté 1 sur 5par Utilisateur ou utilisatrice 17616578 de Firefox, il y a 4 joursNow requires browser history in the latest update. This is now spyware. Uninstalled.
- Noté 5 sur 5par LeoValiant, il y a 8 jours
- Noté 3 sur 5par Utilisateur ou utilisatrice 20070079 de Firefox, il y a 8 joursConceptually 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.
Réponse du développeur
mis en ligne : il y a 8 joursEtsy hasn't rolled out to Firefox yet as Firefox has been holding the app in review (without updates) for nearly 2 weeks. - Noté 5 sur 5par Simon, il y a 10 jours
- Noté 5 sur 5par SuspiciousLampPost, il y a 10 jours
- Noté 5 sur 5par Utilisateur ou utilisatrice 17516052 de Firefox, il y a 10 joursone of my favorite extensions. tired of all the cheap brands on Amazon and this is solving it.
- Noté 5 sur 5par Utilisateur ou utilisatrice 13279972 de Firefox, il y a 12 jours
- Noté 5 sur 5par Tarn, il y a 15 jours
- Noté 1 sur 5par Blindgänger, il y a 15 jours
- Noté 1 sur 5par Utilisateur ou utilisatrice 20049392 de Firefox, il y a 18 jours
- Noté 1 sur 5par Utilisateur ou utilisatrice 20049389 de Firefox, il y a 18 jours
- Noté 1 sur 5par Utilisateur ou utilisatrice 20049382 de Firefox, il y a 18 jours
- Noté 5 sur 5par Quinnypig, il y a 19 joursThis 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. - Noté 5 sur 5par joe28753, il y a 19 joursStill 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.
- Noté 1 sur 5par LeadR, il y a 19 jours
- Noté 4 sur 5par Laurazepam, il y a 19 joursWould 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.
Réponse du développeur
mis en ligne : il y a 19 joursThanks 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! - Noté 1 sur 5par quikket, il y a 19 joursIst verkommen zu
- invasiven Berechtigungsanfragen
- Injektion von Werbung (s. Website unter "advertise")
- Closed Source ...
Schade, war anfangs wirklich gut. - Noté 1 sur 5par MedPlex, il y a 20 joursAnfangs alles top aber mit jedem Update kamen Datenabfragen und Zugriffsanfragen dazu...
- Noté 5 sur 5par johnnyp, il y a 21 joursone of the of the most useful tools ive seen created for the average consumer. amazing work.
- Noté 5 sur 5par WA, il y a 22 joursThis is an extremely helpful extension, I can't believe how much better this makes Amazon shopping.
- Noté 4 sur 5par Salix223, il y a 23 jours
- Noté 2 sur 5par Utilisateur ou utilisatrice 16970550 de Firefox, il y a 24 jours
- Noté 3 sur 5par Utilisateur ou utilisatrice 20036283 de Firefox, il y a 25 joursBe 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.Réponse du développeur
mis en ligne : il y a 24 joursSorry 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! - Noté 1 sur 5par Utilisateur ou utilisatrice 20035832 de Firefox, il y a 25 jours