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Microsoft Shopping Assistant for Chrome
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.
Extension stats
This extension was removed from Chrome Web Store on
2022-10-04
Manifest V2
Permissions:
- tabs
- cookies
- http://*/
- https://*/
- alarms
- history
- storage
- unlimitedStorage
- notifications
- activeTab
Size: 3.92M
Email: ps*****@microsoft.com
Full description: See detailed description
Other platforms
Not available on Android
Not available on Firefox
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, 2022-08-08
tragedia
by
Damian Zdyb, 2021-02-24
I would like to add ideas of products i want to buy on my lists
by
Carlo Monti, 2021-02-21
Extension safety
Risk impact
Microsoft Shopping Assistant requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.
Risk impact analysis details
- Critical Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
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Risk likelihood
We don't have sufficient data to confidently determine the risk likelihood of Microsoft Shopping Assistant. Use it at your own risk.
Risk likelihood analysis details
- Critical This extension is not longer available in the store
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