$heriff_v2: The Price Discrimination Add-on
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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
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Risk impact
$heriff_v2 requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.
Risk likelihood
$heriff_v2 is very likely to contain malware and should not be trusted. Avoid installing.
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