Went closed source, suddenly the addon is requesting more permissions with every update and now wants browsing data. Not to be trusted.

enforces a "shop for US alternatives" button even though i turned it off in setttings as it's not relevant for me. uninstalled.

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.

Explain why you need this? Has been working fine without. "Required data collection, according to the developer:

Browsing activity
Website content"

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.

Mandatory for using Amazon.
God bless the developers.
I cannot use Amazon without using this.

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!

You are doing God's work. Absolute kudos, I'm gonna go look and see if I can sponsor you on GitHub.

works well, I wish it would expand to other platforms than Amazon

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.

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.

Great idea but rudimentary filtering method that catches a lot of false positives.

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)