$heriff_v2

$heriff - The price discrimination (PD) add-on.

What is $heriff_v2?

$heriff_v2 is a Chrome extension called $heriff that allows users to search for dynamic price variations by e-retailers. It collects browser information and encourages cookie and browser history donation to identify potential price discrimination. The extension aims to investigate whether prices vary based on user information such as location, browser/OS, and navigation history.

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Extension stats

This extension was removed from Chrome Web Store on 2024-04-13 due to Chrome Web Store policy violation

By: https://sheriff-v2.dynu.net

Users: 118

Rating: 4.00 (3)

Version: 0.1.10 (Last updated: 2018-04-27)

Creation date: 2018-04-27

Risk impact: High risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very high risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

activeTab
notifications
tabs
storage
history
*://*/*
cookies
webNavigation
contextMenus

Size: 418.82K

Email: co*****@gmail.com

URLs: Privacy policy

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Before you install:

$heriff is not intended for user under the age of 13.
From version 0.1.1 and later, the tool is also fetching product prices from other $heriff users within the same country using the webRTC protocol.

$heriff is an experimental service that allows to search for traces of price discrimination in the Internet. We want to see whether e-retailers vary their prices dynamically based on the information that they can collect online for the potential customer (such as her location, browser/OS, incoming link, navigation history, etc.). We encourage the users to enable cookie and browser history donation from the options menu. By default the add-on is not collecting any information from the user's browser. When donation is enable we collect only cookies from the selected website (and third party domains) that the request is send. We don't collect any session cookies or personal data. For more details and news please visit our website: http://sheriff-v2.dynu.net