Microsoft Shopping Assistant

Microsoft Shopping Assistant

Your smart shopping cart across the web

What is Microsoft Shopping Assistant?
Microsoft Shopping Assistant is a Chrome extension that serves as a smart shopping cart, helping users save time and money when shopping online. It offers features like automatic price tracking, price history, recommendations, and access to browsed products and boards. With support for over 50,000 stores, the Shopping Assistant puts you in control of your online shopping experience.
Stats
This extension was removed from Chrome Web Store on 2022-10-04
Users: 6,000+
Rating: 3.02 (124)
Version: 2041.60 (Last updated: 2020-10-19)
Creation date: 2019-11-14
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood: High risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • tabs
  • cookies
  • http://*/
  • https://*/
  • alarms
  • history
  • storage
  • unlimitedStorage
  • notifications
  • activeTab
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Size: 3.92M
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Microsoft Shopping Assistant
Microsoft Shopping Assistant (v3000.2016.40.0)
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Summary

Save time and money when you shop online with this built-in shopping assistant for Chrome.

Benefits of the Microsoft Shopping Assistant include: Discover more when you shop -Automatically get helpful information like price history for saved products, prices at other stores, and recommendations for related products Get price alerts -Add a product to your Favorites or to a custom board and the assistant will automatically track the price -You’ll get a notification when the price changes You are always in control -Microsoft Shopping Assistant is built with your security and privacy in mind -You can remove products from the assistant’s history at any time With you whenever you shop -The Shopping Assistant works with more than 50,000 stores and continuing to expand its reach Easily get back to your shopping
-Whenever you visit a product, your assistant automatically remembers what you’ve looked at.

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User reviews
Has So Much Potential, But. . . I have tried using this app in Firefox, Chrome, and now in MS Edge on and off for the past two years. And I really and truly wanted to love this app which was why I kept trying to return to it, but for as long as it has been available, it seems to still remain in a raw, unfinished state. Certain pop up windows for editing or deleting categories or products saved are unreadable. The text is overlaid whatever it happens to be over, because the pop up window is completely transparent, and it has remained this way for the entire two years I've tried to use it. Worse, it has this nasty horrible habit of throwing items I've saved to specific categories anywhere it likes but in those specified categories. If you choose to save a pair of sneakers in a category you've created called, "sneakers" there is a good chance that it will actually end up anywhere but there. It is typical to find items saved in other, unrelated, categories. There is nothing more disconcerting than finding sneakers you've saved to "sneakers" in a category created named "glassware". It really breaks the trust that the app actually works. This app also stumbles over pulling images of the items you save from some pretty well known sites, ie Etsy. The entire two years I've tried to use it, it never pulled product images from saved items. There has even been a few rare cases where it just threw some random image there. Despite repeated feedback to MS, nothing ever was done. Lastly, but not in totality, visually speaking this app has never changed from its first release. It still has that blocky, clunky, appearance of being in test mode. Or an app that came out in the late 90s. Yes its appearance leaves much to be desired, but the reason I consider it important is if you have a large number of categories created, the app doesn't lend itself visually to helping keep things easy to see. The app, as much as I like to believe in it is not trustworthy, which is a terrible if not worst problem when releasing an app. It drops data anywhere and everywhere. It just doesn't seem like it was ever finished, or passed final testing for quality control. And that is just too bad because it has promise, but it doesn't seem that after all this time MS has the will to see it through. At least when Apple releases an app, you can expect to at least function as it is expected to. No sloppiness with visual elements, and fairly quick response and fixes to bugs and such. Not so much with MS unfortunately. I really wish that would change. Because if it did, it would give me good reason to return to PC's.
by Data Two Data Two, 2022-08-08

tragedia
by Damian Zdyb Damian Zdyb, 2021-02-24

I would like to add ideas of products i want to buy on my lists
by Carlo Monti Carlo Monti, 2021-02-21
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Safety
Risk impact

Microsoft Shopping Assistant is risky to use as it requires a number of sensitive permissions that can potentially harm your browser and steal your data. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing. We recommend that you only install Microsoft Shopping Assistant if you trust the publisher.

Risk likelihood

Microsoft Shopping Assistant may not be trust-worthy. Avoid installing if possible unless you really trust this publisher.

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