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  • door WA, 4 uur geleden
    This is an extremely helpful extension, I can't believe how much better this makes Amazon shopping.
  • door Salix223, 18 uur geleden
  • door Equinox0, 19 uur geleden
    Went closed source, suddenly the addon is requesting more permissions with every update and now wants browsing data. Not to be trusted.

    Antwoord van ontwikkelaar

    5 uur geleden geplaatst
    I know lots of extensions have made terrible decisions and taken advantage of folks, but that's not this. You can read all about what permissions are needed here and why.

    https://knockoff.co/faq
    https://knockoff.co/privacy

    If you have specific questions about anything, please email me: josh@knockoff.co

    Apps change. They add functionality (user-requested, by the way). And for better or worse, Firefox has *very* generalized categories for these types of permissions that generally make them sound much more heavy-handed than they really are.

    But again, lots of folks feel burned by extensions, so I get the sentiment. No rug pull here, just a product that's growing. 🤗
  • door Firefox-gebruiker 12154263, één dag geleden
    enforces a "shop for US alternatives" button even though i turned it off in setttings as it's not relevant for me. uninstalled.

    Antwoord van ontwikkelaar

    één dag geleden geplaatst
    It's a bug! Found the problem and pushing out the fix for it hopefully in the next hour or so.
  • door ThingsThatAreWhoo, één dag geleden
    Neat idea and decent execution.

    Unfortunately, the developer decided to add new features (one of them mostly useless to people who are not based in the US) that require data collection, marked as browsing activity and website content. These features are on by default, and while they might be harmless in themselves, this kinda kills the canary. The extension does not appear to be open source, yet has a strong media presence and pretty website. Perfect breeding ground for some party to buy it and turn it into something sinister, piggybacking on a huge install base.

    I am not saying that's the developer's intention, but it leaves a bad aftertaste in my mouth.

    Edit: Correction, older versions are indeed open source. Thanks for reply. The fact however that they are not anymore is an oddity at best.

    Antwoord van ontwikkelaar

    één dag geleden geplaatst
    Sorry the extension is no longer a fit for you. More info on why "browsing activity" and "website content" are necessary is covered here: https://knockoff.co/privacy

    Any decision I make will be a positive for some a negative for others. Such is the nature of creating things. The code for the earlier versions *is* very much open source and you're more than welcome to download, use, fork, etc: https://github.com/Shpigford/knockoff
  • door Firefox-gebruiker 16970550, 2 dagen geleden
  • door Firefox-gebruiker 20038783, 2 dagen geleden
    Explain why you need this? Has been working fine without. "Required data collection, according to the developer:

    Browsing activity
    Website content"

    Antwoord van ontwikkelaar

    2 dagen geleden geplaatst
    Fair. 0.8.0 suggests US-based alternatives to a product, so it sends the products you open (ASIN, title, brand, seller). A second feature sends seller IDs to show where a seller is based.

    Both are on by default, both switch off in options, and filtering works without either. Stored is a per-product view counter: no IP, no account, no searches.

    Unfortunately, Firefox only offers fixed permission labels, and none are narrower than that.
  • door Firefox-gebruiker 20036283, 3 dagen geleden
    Be very careful. This extension seemed like a great idea and I started happily using it in large part
    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 quite reasonable so I changed the star rating from one star to four stars. But I'd still prefer an extension that did not collect any website content or browsing activity information because with the way it is now, there still appears to be the possibility of abuse.

    Antwoord van ontwikkelaar

    2 dagen geleden geplaatst
    Sorry 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!
  • door Firefox-gebruiker 20035832, 3 dagen geleden
  • door Andrew G Lucas, 4 dagen geleden
  • door Mr Leaf, 4 dagen geleden
  • door davidohara, 5 dagen geleden
    Mandatory for using Amazon.
    God bless the developers.
    I cannot use Amazon without using this.
  • door Firefox-gebruiker 14665809, 6 dagen geleden
    Works 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!
  • door RN, 6 dagen geleden
    You are doing God's work. Absolute kudos, I'm gonna go look and see if I can sponsor you on GitHub.
  • door qwertzu, 6 dagen geleden
    works well, I wish it would expand to other platforms than Amazon
  • door riot, 7 dagen geleden
    Man. 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.
  • door Firefox-gebruiker 19659081, 7 dagen geleden
  • door d1nd141, 7 dagen geleden
  • door EarthCitizen, 8 dagen geleden
  • door Firefox-gebruiker 15037205, 8 dagen geleden
  • door B.C., 8 dagen geleden
  • door Firefox-gebruiker 17828049, 8 dagen geleden
    I love this already and I'm excited to see where it goes. Especially valuable to me is the ability to hide all the sponsored listings. This is something I was doing mentally and it was exhausting to try to skip past all the untrustworthy pay-to-play stuff.
  • door Afzal, 8 dagen geleden
    Great idea but rudimentary filtering method that catches a lot of false positives.

    Antwoord van ontwikkelaar

    8 dagen geleden geplaatst
    To be clear, it has a heavy "community note" feature that improves the filtering constantly for everyone. If you see a false positive, just report it and it'll be manually reviewed.
  • door pvrz, 8 dagen geleden
  • door BlackEye, 8 dagen geleden
    I like the idea but...

    For amazon.de many reputable (german) brands are marked orange or red whereas scammy brands are "not recognized".

    In my test the false positive rate was >50% and the false negative rate >80%.

    With this results the addon maybe great but the data is pretty useless (for amazon.de)